The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 12, 1934, Page 6

Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. , FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1934 Daily, WTRAL ORGAM COMMUNIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST JNTERMATIONALD “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC., 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. ‘Daiwo Y Cable Address Washington Bur \sth and FP st Midwest Bureau Telephone ational D.C. Te e 1 705, Chicago, Room Dearbori except Manhattan and $3.50; 3 mon mrenx, 2! 39.00 $5.00: 3. months 75 cents FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1934 Seamen! Stop Scab Herding! HILE seamen and licensed officers are striking, fighting hard on picket lines for improved wages and living conditions, Victor Olander, Silas Axtel and other leaders of the International Seamen's Union, having failed to halt the strike from going into effect last Monday, are now playing the ac- tual role of chief herders of scabs for the ship- owners. These so-called labor leaders have admitted openly to the press that they have been called upon several times to supply men for the struck vessels, and according to the New York Times, “the then were supplied in each instance.” They have supplied strikebreakers for the Texas Ranger, the first truck in New York Harbor. The strike commi reports that 1.S.U. officials heve put men aboard the Lammot du Pont and the Santa Elena. Such brazen exampled in the Atlantic seaports. Here is a strike, five days old, led by a united front. strike committee—a strike against the in- human conditions existing aboard ships, for higher wages and shorter hours. The shipowners want to bre his strike, because they do not want to pay the seamen decent wages. And in their attempts to break the strike, they are using their best allies, the labor misleaders, T.8.U. leaders—agents of the capitalist class in the ranks of the workers. Wow, that these misleaders have failed to check fie strike on the basis of sweet promises fhat they Will discuss the demands of the men with the ship- owners and settle everything on some far-off day without resorting to strike action, they have be- come the leading herders of scabs. In spite of this, however, the strike is still firm. It has every possibility of spreading and being vic- torious But in order to spread the strike, one immedi- ate task stands before the seamen. They must drive the’ scab-herding I.S.U. officials from the ranks of the worke: Rank and file members of the 1S.U. shculd de- mand at once that their leaders stop shipping Strikebreakers aboard. the ships. Mass picket lines should be set up in front of every hall where I.S.U. officials are shipping scabs. This scabbery must be stopped. strike-breaking are of union labor in un- the acts of annals Roosevelt’s New Wage-Cut Drive N HIs with the press on Wednesday, Roosevelt announced a new drive for higher prices. This latest move to help big business was made at the dic- tates of finance capital. On the very day of the announcement Roosevelt was conferring with Russell C. Leffingwell, a partner of J. P. Morgan. Roosevelt attempted to conceal his lates: attack on the living standards of the working class by mouthing the hypocritical statement that wages “ought” to go up along with prices. But the history of the new deal shows that while prices have been forced up, wages have remained frozen at starva- tion levels in the minimum wages of the N. R. A. codes. Consequently the workers’ real wages have decreased. What has risen is the cost of living. According to the reactionary National Industrial Conference Board, living costs have gone up 13.3 per cent from April, 1933, to Sept., 1934. Consequently while the capitalist class has made enormous profits the liv- ing standards of the workers have been steadily beaten down. Along with the prospect of higher prices, the Workers are confronted by a new wage-cu‘ting drive for which Roosevelt gave the signal in his labor “truce” of Sept. 20. To accelerate the rise of prices Roosevelt is also developing new inflationary measures centering around the proposed central government bank. To.meet this offensive against their living stand- ards the workers mus: fight for increases in wages that will at least be equal to the increase in the cost of food, clothing and shelter. And the unem- Dloyed must immediately demand more cash relief Since rising prices will cut down on what little relief they ge: now. interview Act Now Against War! NSPIRED anti-Italian riots throughout Jugoslavia over the assassination of the tyrant King Alexander are speedily fol- lowing the path of the Sarajevo assassina- -tion which preceded the last world impe- Tialist slaughter. Open charges are being made in Jugo- Slavia that the force behind the assassination of Alexzancer and Barthou was the fascist government of It2ly. All of the bitterest contradictions of Eu- Tepean cepitziism are at the exploding point, and War.may break out at any moment Every moment now becomes tenser. Armies are moving to the field of battle. War planes are ready for their deadly flights. The entire capitalist world 4s rocking on the precipice of war! . _- Ave tne toiling masses of the world again gcing to permit the capitalist bandits, on the pretext of an assassination, to plunge the entire world into a new end bloodier slaughter? The whole working class, all forces against war must be aroused into action now. Protest demon- strations, anti-war meetings, mobilization of the Workers to a realization of the danger, must be uncertaken new. By world wide action immedi- ately, the proletariat, with their united front action, can stay the hand of the bloody exploiters and rulers, The danger is tremendous. Even while these i tre ng written the forces of war may al- I> © lef loose. Every factor for war is ten times freeter than in 1914. Every imperialist. pover has en preparing tor this war. They have now manu- at factured the pretext. The Jugoslavian “riots” have been deliberately engineered, just as the assassina- tion was by Italian fas The only force that stands in the way of war, can stop war, that can prepare now, if this war should come, to transform it into a civl war for the overthrow of capitalism, is the proletariat, that the working class, who will have to lose their lives by the millions in the event of war. Down with imperialist war! Mobilize the united front of the workers to pre- vent war! Stay the bloody Hand of world capitalism about to plunge humanity into the most criminal, mur- derous adventure in all history! Act now against war! The Silk Situation LOSE to 70 small silk shops are now on strike in Paterson, N. J.,- against the blacklist and the attempts of the em- ployers to lower wages at the close of the recent general textile strike. The re-strike movement of the textile workers has begun. While Francis Gorman, leader of the United Textile Workers Union and be- trayer of the general strike, has proclaimed a six- month no-strike “truce,” the textile workers have already begun their struggles against the attack of the employers. They are not accepting lying dcwn the blacklist, the low wage and stretchout drive of the mill barons, which is a direct result of Gorman’s sell-out. The silk workers are demanding a general silk strike in answer to the employers’ attacks. The 15,000 dyers are fighting for decent conditions in their new contract. They have forced Gorman’s Paterson lieutenant, Eli Keller, to make a gesture toward a general strike of silk and dye workers. But Eli Keller, the Lovestoneite renegade from Communism, continues to play his role of agent of the Green-Gorman machine. Keller asks permis- sion of Green and Gorman for the calling of the silk workers out on strike Oct. 25. KELLER KNOWS AND EVERY WORKER KNOWS THAT GREEN AND GORMAN WILL NOT GIVE THEIR CONSENT TO A GENERAL SILK AND DYE STRIKE. Keller is simply spar- ring for time, trying to render futile the mili- tancy of the Paterson silk and dye workers as he did during the general strike. Keller's obvious role, as head of the Paterson Silk Workers Union (U.T.W.), is to immediately prepare the general silk strike and call the workers out. But Keller, of course will not do this, He continues to follow Green's expulsion policy, kicking out militants from the union, He continues to carry out Gorman’s no strike policy as he did when he refused to call the dyers on strike during the general strike. The silk workers of Paterson will have to take immediate action to prepare their own general strike if they are to defeat the Roos¢evelt-Gorman no strike truce under cover of which their wages are being reduced and many are. being blacklisted. The rank and file opposition in the U.T.W. in Paterson calls on the silk workers to take the fol- lowing steps at once to win their demands: 1) Call a meeting of all workers now on strike and elect a strike commitee which will have the support of all the workers. Enlarge the relief committee. 2) Call a meeting of all shop chairmen and at this meeting elect a committee for strike action against wage cuts and discrimination. 3) Call a meeting in one of the largest halls for dye and silk workers and at this meeting mobilize the workers for strike action when the dyers’ contract expires this month. The membership has already demanded Keller’: removal because of his treachery during the gen- eral strike and because of his expulsion policy. The defeat of the Rooseveli-Gorman-Keller policy of accepting wage cuts and blacklist without a strug- gle, calls for the removal of Keller from the union. Wages and Prices IOMMENTING upon the growing move- ment among the American working class for a shorter work week without any reduction in pay, the New York Times, one of the leading organs of Wall Street, attempts editorially to persuade the workers that a rise in wages will be of no use to them, since the employers would only retaliate by raising prices in the same proportion. - This “argument” against increased wages is an old story in capitalist economic theory. But Karl Marx, revolutionary genius who founded the First International and the world Communist movement for the overthrow of .capftalism, long ago blasted this theory to pieces in his famous pam- phlet, “Value, Price and Profit.” Marx shows that the prices of commodities can not be fixed simply by the wishes of the employers, that the employers cannot simply raise prices when- ever they wish. Marx shows that this argument proving that the workers ought to accept without any resistance a steady degradation of their wages and living standards, is based on the exploded fal- lacy that the prices of commodities are determined by wages. He shows that in many cases where wages are relatively high, the price of the com- modity is relatively low, and vice-versa, where wages are low the price of the commodity to be sold can be relatively high, as for example in agricul- ture today, where farm labor gets starvation wages while farm prices are rising. x Prices, Marx shows, ate determined not by what the employers want to charge, but by unavoidable economic relations between the value of one com- modity and another. An employer cannot simply decide out of his own sweet will to raise prices in order to make up for a wage increase. He cannot do this, because as soon as he did that, his market would shrink, forcing him to reduce his prices again. And if an entire industry decides to raise prices, then the same process, whereby capital would flow to it to take advantage of the high rate of profit, would bring prices down again through competition and expanding production. Frem this, Marx shows that the class struggle hetween the worker and the empleyer around wages heils down to a struggle as to the rate ef profit of the employe: the higher the weges, the less” the profit, the lower the profit, the higher the wages, There is no such thing, Marx shows, as “low” wages or “high,” naturally fixed by some inscrut- ible fate. The working class can force steadily in- creased wages through mass struggle, and these in- creased wages will give the workers real benefits in increased ability to buy goods. If workers win more wages, and employers get less profits, prices will not rise as a result, be- cause “the aggregate demand for commodities would therefore not increase, only the constituent. parts of the demand will change, and thus no change whatever could take place in the market price of commodities.” (Mar: In short, the work2rs would get more to live on, and the boss would hove to get along on less profit. The fight for higher wages and shorter hours can bring real advances to the ror7k<=. But only the New York Times and the capitalist Clase could see anything wesns in thot Party Life Two C. P. Members Recruit Ten Workers For Party in One Month IN the present recruiting drive, I wish to set down the experiences of myself and another comrade on how we brought in about ten new Party members through our work in the union. | During the one month's time in which we recruited these members, we went about it in this manner: | We picked out those workers whom we saw were sincere, who jhelped in the picket line. We did not wait, as many comrades do, | talking for months with workers before trying to interest them in the Party. When we saw any worker willing and sincere in helping to build the union, we immediately |spoke to him about the Party. Af- ter less than an hour's conversa- | tion in explaining on how the Party works and why workers should join, they immediately asked for an ap- ese and paid their initiation. The trouble with the fraction in this particular union was that they never (except when we brought a member in) took up the question of | recruiting. For over eight months before we came in, not one: worker | | was recruited into the Party by the fraction and in this fraction there} were over eight members. I be- lieve this is disgraceful. eee | "THE main thing every comrade in| any organization must remem-' ber: is never be afraid of speaking | up. especially to workers who are fighters. Workers when asked to | join the Party will do so, especially if the one who asks them is him- self a real Communist, if he him- self takes the lead in his organ- ization’s struggles. | No Party member should ever be without application cards, without | pamphlets. If the comrades are sell- | ing Daily Workers and are not| bringing in any Party members, |; then something is wrong. This par- | ticular question should be taken up. |On visiting Communist voters, re- |cruits should be gotten, There is no excuse, it has been done. Do |not fear. to ask, take no refusal, | find out workers’ reasons why they | do not join. In this manner not} | only will we surely get recruits, but we will better know what the workers think and feel toward our |Party. We will be better able to clear up their objections. Fractions should not be extra ex- ecutive board meetings. Recruiting should and must be on every agenda. This applies to. units as well. More members into the ‘Party means less fluctuation. Last word is: do not forget your own family; children into the Young Pioneers, into the Young Communist League, and the Communist Party. M. FENNER, Unit 7, Section 16, rye EMBERS of the Units: We are certain that many of you are having interesting experiences in recruiting for the Party, and that you have developed methods of work | that would be of value to the entire Party. For example, we know of a | comrade, working in a New York hospital, who by her own efforts has recruited in the neighborhood of 40 workers into our Party. Her ex- | periences and her methods of work should be written up for this} column. We appeal to every Party | |member to write us letters telling} of your recruiting work, how you approach the workers, your meth- ods. of appeal; how you keep in touch with them after they have joined the Party, etc. During the course of the recruiting drive, let us fill this column with our ex- Periences in winning workers for our Party, Waterfront comrades: In the midst of your activities in connection with the Marine strike, take a few min- utes to write us about them. What is your unit doing to assist the strike? What are your recruiting activities among the seamen and longshoremen? What are you doing | to combat the “red scare”? Let us |have the accounts of the Party: in action in the marine strike in this | column, Chiefs’ Corruption (Continued from Page 1) gle of such bitterness, bringing with it such exposures of the inner decay and dishonesty of the upper labor officialdom, that, could -it have been broadcast to the union membership and the whole working class, it would aid greatly the revolt now in Progress. Each side exposed the other and even cynical newspaper- men were somewhet astonished by the revelations made. Building Trades Head Speaks President McDonough, of — the building trades department, who is also a member of the Construction Code Authority, opened the debate. Be wore a large diamond ring and diamond stick pin’ which contrasted strangely with the. conditions of the building trades workers in whose in- terests he was supposed to speak, and who these officials admit are 75 per cent unemployed. McDonough proceeded to expose the duplicity of his opponents with President Hucheson of the carpen- ters, heading the list. He read a letter from Hucheson to the mem- bership of his union instructing them thet, although they were sup- posed to go back into the building trades, they were to observe the con- ditions of the triple fighting alliance against all other crafts jointly with the electrical workers and brick- layers. They were instructed to sur- render no jurisdiction of any kind unde= any circumstances. Long List of Treacheries McDonough then re>d a long list of intrigues, treacheries, splits and secessions engineered, as he claimed. |by Huchscon. He then accused the electrical workers and bricklayers union heads of having boosted their voting strength in the convention |“NEXT CAR DOW N, PLEASE!” Contributions received to the credit of Burck in his socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen (Continued on Page 2) lives of the Scottsboro boys has been the greatest factor in American history in uniting the masses, white and black, in the fight for Negro rights. In fact. it was the stupidities of Leibowitz, his insulting remarks about the Southerners as morons, etc. — remarks publicly repudiated «by the Daily Worker and the I.L.D.—which stirred up difficul- ties in the South, difficulties which Communists worked to iron out by increasing our efforts—suc- cessfully also—to bring Southern workers and lib- erals into the Scottsboro. defense. A Harlem Negro attorney, John M. Griggs, un- known to the Daily Worker, when interviewed yes- terday by the Amsterdam News, correctly estimated the treachery of Leibowitz and also answered his charges. He stated: “It’s just a subterfuge. He knew at the time he entered the case that the LL.D. was in charge of the matter, and he was quite familiar, as every- one else was, with the fact that they were en- gaged in extensive propaganda. He remained in the case after the I.L.D. had staged its demonstra- tion in Washington, during the sitting with the Supreme Court. “He knows that these cases cannot be success- fully defended without financing, and it’s neces- sary for these people to hold paid mass meet- ings in order to raise the necessary money, if they can’t secure it otherwise. The N. A. A. C. P. had withdrawn from the case prior to his entry, practically on the same grounds on which he bases his withdrawal. “He has secured about a million dollars in advertisement on the case, 2nd now he proceeds te run out on the defense.” . . . E Daily Worker, speaking for the Communist Party, entered the Scottsboro case on April 2nd, 1931, with an appeal to the International Labor Defense and the broad masses of toilers to enter energetically into the fight to save the lives of the nine boys. A few days later, on April 9th, the International Labor Defense entered the case, designated by the boys as their defense instrument. Since then the Communists and the Interna- tional Labor Defense has mae the Scottsboro case an international case, The lives of nine formerly obscure boys have become the property of an in- ternational movement. Millions of workers, farm- ers and middle class people have participated in their defense. For this reason primarily these nine boys are alive today, At the same time the best legal talent has been provided, the strongest legal battle has been made. Samuel Leibowitz and. the Defense of Scottsboro Boys An Editorial by Burck| Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $69,000. QUOTA—S$1,000, Total to date . Dozens of attorneys of national note have been brought into the case. They were brought in with- out regard to their politics or affiliations. There was always only one question: Can they contribute to the boys defense?—can they aid us in saving the boys’ lives? When Leibowitz could aid the defense he was brought in; when Chamlee or Pollak or others could best contribute they were used. Always the one aim was the freedom of the boys. Even Leibowitz has on numerous occasions been obliged to admit in speeches and in the press that if it were not for the International Labor Defense and its determined, militant defense, the boys would have been executed at the very outset of the case. He has repeatedly commended the I. L. D. for its work. Yet, today, like the charlatan he has proven himself to be, he double-crosses the I. L. D, and places the boys lives in jeopardy. . * . From the beginning of the case the leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and certain church leaders have been more concerned with fighting Communists than in fighting for the freedom of the boys. The defense has had to be a defensewagainst their maneuvers as well as against the Southern lynchers. Now Leibowitz has gone over to these forces. And in doing so there now becomes the danger that these people will handle the Scottsboro case as they handled the Crawford case, that they will turn the boys over for a life term in a Southern prison, or Possibly even worse, that.on one ground or another they will abandon the defense, permitting them to be murdered. This requires the greatest vigilance from the workers’ movement. The defense of the boys must. goon. The mass defense must be enlarged. Millions must be again drawn into the fight to ent the execution of Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris on December 7th and to force the freedom of the boys. The greatest pressure must be e: ed to get a reversal of their conviction in the United States Supreme Court. At the outset we declared our intentions of turning over the récords as requested by Leibowitz. This will be done. Nothing will be put in the way of a real defense. But the mass movement will be broadened. The defense tactics of Leibowitz will be watched. The vigilance of the masses will be aroused. The masses will continue to fight. 5 Finally, we assure the masses who have an- swered our call to the Scottsboro defense, the Communists are not out of the Scottsboro case. We will be in the center of the case until the lives of the boys are saved, until the boys ave freed. on non-existent membership. Init, the case of the bricklayers he pointed out that they had apparent- ly increased their membership from 35,000 to 60,000 in some three) months. There has been no increase in employment in 18 months. He closes by characterizing the recommenda- | tion as a gun at the head of the artificially by paying per capita tax | Lindeloff, of the painters, opposed |Soviet Heavy Industry | Franklin, of the boilermakers op-, Makes Rapid Advance posed the recommendation which reyerses the action of the recent! bu Iding trades convention and teok the opportunity to dig up some old seendals and hint at new ones. ‘ ked why if the principle of de-|—Soviet heavy industry partment autonomy was to be vio- Within Last 9 Months ‘Special to tie Daily We-tar) He ing new progress every yeer. MOSCOW, Oct. 7 (By Wireless). chiey- officials of the Building Trades and said they would never stand for it. Membership Ignored McSorley of the Laihers Union opposed the repo... He complained that it was a fine recommendation and in 30 years in the A. F. of L, he had never knewn a decision to be final before. He then raised frankly the question of official jobs involved. He sa:d that McDonough, “is in a good position in Washing- ton,” and that his good relations with the Code Authority are all- important—for his fellow-officials, of course; because the membership was |never mentioned in the-course of the entire debate. Tracy, ef the electrical workers, spoke for the recommendat'on—nat- urally, since it would place h’'s or- genization in a dominant position in the Building Trades department. \lated now it had noi been done when his organization appealed against 2 decision kicking them out of the Building Trades. French Imperialism Increases Arms Plants PRAGUE, Oct. 11—The number of far-flung ammunition factories built end supervised by French im- perialism throughout the Balkans is to be increased in Rumania, from reports received here. The Czechoslovakian arms factory | fertilizers, | phosphate, 73.2 per cent in Brunn—Prench o wned—con- cluded an agreement with Rumania, according to which a munitions fac: tory is to be erected in the vicinity of Bucharest and a machine build- ing works at Gugyr In 1934 its progress stands out vividly in comparison with “ormer years. For the first nine months of 1932 heavy industry had fulfilled a little over half of the yearly plan. Nine months of 1933 saw 64 per cen’ of the plan fulfilled. In 1934, according to preliminary calcula- tions, over 73 per cent of the plan will be fulfilled. The output of tractors stands first in this respect; 76.7 per cont of the yearly plan has been ful- filled in nine months. Next is coke, 76.3 per cent; pig iron, %6.1 per cent; electric power, 75.4 per cent. Next comes the output of mineral 745 per cent; suner- motvor- cars, 72.3 per cent; trucks, 71.7 per cent; coal and iron ore, 70.7 per ent. More pig iron and steel has been smelted in nine months of 1934 than in the whole of 1933. | World Front ——— By HARRY GANNES Thaelmann in Danger! Lull in the Campaign | We Must Act To Save Him | | A DANGEROUS lull in the campaign to free Ernst |Thaelmann, leader of the |Communist Party of Ger- |many, has occurred in recent weeks. The Nazi butchers have taken advantage of this slackening |of vigilance, especially in the United | States, and are quietly but rapidly | rushing every move to slaughter our comrade who for nearly 20 months has suffered from Nazi tortures. Just a few days ago, the Daily | Worker received a letter from the |Communist Party of Germany tell- jing of the definite steps being taken by the Nazi “People’s Court” to de« |cree death for Thaelmann at the jearliest moment. | “As we learn from reliable sources,” says this letter from our | brother Party, “after the delib- erate and repeated delaying of the trial, the terrorist judgment of the ‘legal’ proceedings will fall sometime in the course of October, very probably in mid-October), eee causes for the delays were |* the world mass demonstrations for the release of Thaelmann, which were marked in the United |States by some splendid actions | throughout the country. There were mass picketings, demonstrations in front of the consulates, anti-Fas- |cist meetings in schools, before fac- |tories, a few small strikes, tens of |thousands of leaflets, and other ef- |fective agitation. The American | Capitalist press at that time was |forced to deal with the Thaelmann |case, and the result was that the Nazi butchers changed their plans for a time, waiting for a let-up in the anti-Fascist agitation, in the |demand for the freedom of Ernst ;Thaelmann and other anti-fascist prisoners. That dangerous moment. has ar- rived now! The Nazis are taking full advantage of it, and unless action is again awakened, and in- jereased ten-fold over the previous | splendid campaign, Thaelmann’s \head may be rolling before the feet |of the Nazi fiends. a THE last three weeks the Nazi executioners have beheaded four |anti-fascist fighters. As winter ap- |Proaches, the Nazi fiends begin to \fear increased struggles against the |Hitler murder regime, and are be- ‘ginning to weed out, by the use of jthe ax, those whom they think |most dangerous to their regime, | Thaelmann alive is by far the great- |est menace to fascism, as they fear |him as the outstanding leader of |the German proletariat, the symbol [of the revolutionary party of the proletariat that has declared un- |relenting war against fascism. | Though Thaelmann is in their | Power, and it would appear to be jan easy matter for the Fascist | thugs to do away with him, the \ effectiveness of the world wide pro- |test, drawing in all anti-fascist |forces, rallying the support even |of such liberals as Clarence Dar- |tOW, W. O, Thompson, and some of | the foremost writers, jurists and intellectuals of Europe has pre- sented the Nazi executioners with a tremendous obstacle. | | | Ow these are the only forces \** which stand between Thaelmann jand death. But these forces must be re-awakened, set in motion, into action now more energetically than eve: before! And this must be done before it is too late! The issue and the dangers are put clearly by the Communist Party of Germany, and every worker, |every anti-fescist must weigh the words of our embattled comrades |and ask himself, “What can I do |now to help save Thaelmann?” “Thanks to the great interna- tional movement of protest for our brave comrade, Thaelmann, and thanks to the real proof of pro- letarian solidarity and the revo- lutionary internationalism of our brother parties (for which we here wich to record our full recog- nition and our revolutionary thanks) to Hitler dictatorchip has been subjected to heavy pres- sure from the masses of the world,” writes the embattled Ger= man Communist Party, “We now ask our brother sec= tion to strengthen the mobiliza- tion of the masses in the coming “We ask our brother section, therefore, in the face of Comrade Thaclmann’s immediate peril, to inereace its mass action and to prepare to deal a fatal blow te the bloody ‘justice’ of the Fascists oe the whole dictatorship of Hit- ler. “We propose that you launch a storm of protest in the shape of letters, telecrams and delega- tions to the consulates, the Hit- ler embessies, the German Ges- tano sccret state police) and to the ‘Peopte’s Court of Justice.” Comrades, anti-fascists, we must ;immediately head the appeal of cur brother Party, We cannot per- mit our splendid activity in behalf ‘ef our heroic comrade Ernst Thael- |mann to be wiped out now by the \bioody plans of Hitler. The danger \Now ‘s greater than ever. The came |paign for the release of Ernst Thael- mann must now be developed rap- ‘idly, and burst out upon the Fascist ‘butchers a3 the greatest protest. we ‘have yet undertaken for the free- ‘com ef Ernst Thaelmann and all other anti-fascist priscners. Act now! Contributions received to the credi; of Harry Gannes in his so cialist comvetition with Dzl, Mike | Gold, the Medical Advisory Soard, Helen Luks, Jacob Burck and David i scy. in the Daily Worker drive Tor $60,000. Quota—s500, Anenymeus Previously received, $35.09 » 34.65 | Total to date ..cssceess+s887.65