The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 16, 1934, Page 6

res Page 6 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1934 Daily Worker “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 PUBLISHED DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC Street, New York, N. Y. Telephone: ALgonquin 4-795 4. BY THE 50 E. 13th New Daiwork TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16 Strengthen Thaelmann Fight » ANY day now, Ernst Thaelmann, stal- wart leader of the Communist Party of Germany, unbroken by his long tor- tures in the Nazi dungeons, will be brought before ihe Nazi hangmen for judgment Remembering the world-shaking offensive of Georgi Dimitroff, the Nazi scoundrels set up their so-called “People’s Court” so that their flimsy ac- cusations against Thaelmann and his revolutionary defense will not reach the public. They have kept him buried in their dungeons. They want to “try” him in the darkest secrecy, and kill him in the black of night The Nazi madmen are in a desperate situation, with the onrushing economic catastrophe, the mur- murings and shoutings of discontent sweeping throughout the Jand. And they want to vent their rage and anger on the outstanding symbol of revolu- tienary anti-fascist struggle, Ernst Thaelmann. Throughout the world, the revolutionary soli- darity of the workers, and of all anti-fascists, up to now has saved the life of Ernst Thaelmann. But today his life is in greater aanger than ever. We can save our comrade again. We can force his free- dom. But we must act quickly. We must rally the hundreds of thousands who have already. fought for his release, and for the release of all other anti-fas- cist prisoners. But we must arouse hundreds of thousands more to action. No Nazi official in this country should be left in peace for a moment from the cry: “Free Ernst Thaelmann! Release all anti-fascist prisoners!” Demonstrations, mass meetings, a flood of tele- grams, picketings, telephone calls—every form of action should now be undertaken, and quickly, to fight against the Nazis’ threat against the life of Ernst Thaelmann. Cold-Blooded Murder! E ARE determined to die. Forget about us. Goodbye to the children.” That was the last message sent up by the 1,200 Hungarian miners at Pecs, together with a request for 345 coffins, indicating that that many of their number had already com- mitted suicide. That is what fascism has done to these miners! Working in a mine owned by British capitalists, driven to starvation by Hungarian fascist bayonets, betrayed by their own yellow trade union leaders, the men resorted to mass suicide in order to force & wage increase. Yet the British company prefers to see the men all dead rather than grant an increase in wages from $2 a week to $3.50. What do 1,200 miners’ lives matter to capitalist scoundrels to whom profits are the major reason for existence? Let 1,200 kill themselves, they cold-bloodedly declare! But the Hungarian fascist government fears the repercussions among the Hungarian toiling masses. What does it do? It sends troops to threaten the miners, It sends reformist trade union leaders to try to argue with the men. But the miners seize these scoundrels and hold them as hostages, not as their representatives. i hae real leaders of the Hungarian working class are mainly in prison, being tortured by the Hun- garian fascist government. Mathias Rakosi, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Hungary, who has already served his full sentence of over 12 years, is still held in prison, awaiting trial for his life for fighting the Hungarian exploiters and their bloodthirsty supporters. The American capitalist press does not speak about the daily slaughter of Hungarian workers fighting against these miserable conditions. Only when 1.200 miners reach the desperate stage of taking their lives do they breathe a word in their papers about conditions in fascist Hungary. Every American worker, reading of the terrible ordeal these miners are undergoing, can realize to what pass fascism brings the working class. These men are ready to give their lives for the battle of the Hungarian toilers for higher wages. They have chosen the wrong way of struggle, though their heroism will forever live in the annals of working class history. Oniy the mass revolution- ary struggles, the mobilization of the united front of the working class against the rotten, murderous capitalist system, can solve the problems of the workers driven to such extreme states. Not a self-inflicted death of workers is the way out, but the death of the system which produces such conditions, is the goal of the Communist Parties in all lands, the road of struggle for Soviet Power. Not death in the mines where they have slaved all their lives, but life in the battle for a Soviet state, a proletarian dictatorship—that is fhe way ont, that is the lesson every worker should learn im the bitter tragedy of the Pecs miners. What Kind of Jobless Insurance? HE 54th Annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor has closed without taking any action on genu- ine unemployment insurance. William Green, in answer to the demands of rank and file delegates for permission to address the assemblage on the Workers Unemployment Insur- muice BH, ruled them out of order. “That resolu- tion,” Green answered the delegates who demanded the floor on the Workers’ Bill, “was drawn up by the Communist Party of New York and will be given due consideration by the convention. The demand for the Workers’ Bill has been ex- pressed by the rank and file of the A. F. of L. in its ‘endorsement by 2,400 locals. Six State Federa- tions of Laber, scores of Central Trades Bodies and the national conventions of four international unions School Pay and ‘Patriotism’ have edorsed the Wor! Bill. Delegates to e A. F. of L. national convention were instructed by eir locals, and in the case of the United Textile Workers, instructed by their national. convention, to fight for the adoption of the Workers’ Bill on the convention floor. They were pledged to this by their membership Just as. he has deserted the membership in s es, so has Green deserted the employed and unemployed A. F. of L. membership in their ’sin- cere demand for genuine While each succeeding edition of the “Federation- ist” is filled with the plight of the unemployed, while his monthly reports show an ever increasing number of unemployed, Green has pushed the en- dorsement of the Wagner-Lewis “Unemployment Reserves” Bill employment insurance. NY unemployment insurance bill drafted in the interest of the workers should incorporate the following five points, none of which are covered by the Wagner-Lewis Bill, all of which are incorpo- rated in the Workers’ Bill 1—All workers, regardless of occupation, when unemployed for no fault of their own, should re- ceive income sufficient to maintain a decent stand- ard of living 2—Cost should be made a general charge on in- dustry and government without direct or indirect contributions on the workers or farmers. 3—For the adequate protection of all workers, a federal system must be nation-wide in scope. 4—Administration must be in the hands of work- ers and farmers. 5—Legislation should become effective immedi- ately instead of waiting to build up “reserves.” These are the provisions of the Workers’ Bill, the bill which the Communist Party is proud to have initiated and which receives its unlimited support in the election campaign and in the daily struggles of the workers, Fascist Proposals HE American Federation of Labor statement in Washington, brazenly proposes fascist measures for complete control of the trade unions by the govern- ment; praises the betrayal of the textile strike on the basis of the Winant report; reiterates the Green policy of co-operation with the em- ployers; and proposes the cutting down of govern- ment relief to the unemployed. The A. F. of L. statement contains the complete program of the employ: in their renewed attacks on the workers’ living standards and on ihe trade unions. The Hitler measure of government dictation over the trade unions, which means to turn the A. F. of L. unions into virtual company unions, domi- nated by the employers, is advocated in the fol- lowing passage, “Acceptance ot the principles on which the Recovery Act is predicated—industry or- ganized in trade associations and employes organ- ized in self-governing unions, UNDER CHAIR- MANSHIP OF THE GOVERNMENT-—is the way to peace in the industry, to co-operation for increased output of high quality and higher living standards for producers.” Green puts forward this fascist measure as an interpretation of Roosevelt’s no strike “truce” which he heartily endorses. Green, whose machine steamrollered the rank and file demand fer the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill at the recent national convention, in his newest statement, declares that taxes on em- ployers are too high, government debt is too great, and relief to the jobless should be cut down. “Shall we maintain them [the unemployed] on relief, paying their income by borrowing and by taxing the wealth others create?” asks Green. “Re- cently the latter course has actually been suggested + + . the cost of maintaining the unemployed is Tapidly piling up federal debt.” 'HUS Green proposes that the employers’ taxes should be reduced, and relief to the jobless cut down. Fresh from stifling discussion of federal un- employment insurance at the convention, Green takes a further step in his. attacks on the unem- ployed. And Green's solution is a step toward fascism. As he puts it, it is “co-operative action under gov- ernment leadership.” The Winant report. which granted none of the textile strikers’ demands, he terms “a step in the right direction.” Green's statement might have been written by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, or by President Roosevelt himself. It is a rounded out program for the wage-cutting drive, the union smashing cam- paign, the attack on the unemployed, which the Roosevelt government has launched in order to in- crease the profits of the employers. The rank and file members of the A. F. of L. should give the same answer to this employers’ program that they have given to Green's splitting drive on the Communists ang militant rank and filers. The fascist measure of government control of trade unions in order to put through a no-strike, company union policy, must be decisively rejected. Instead, the rank and file oppositions should be strengthened. The rank and file must control ‘their own trade unions.in order to defeat the employers’ attacks and win better conditions. HE president of the Board of Education of New York City, George J. O’Ryan, has jyst informed his sehool examiners to make a deliberate effort to exclude “dis- loyal” teachers from the school system. This blunt attack on every enlightened standard of educational progress is significantly timed with the administration of the Ives “loyalty oath” in all the schools. There is always plenty of good material reason when these gentlemen suddenly discover in them- selves the enthusiasm of professional patriotism. There is, in short, a well organized drive now under way, with the La Guardia administration at the head and the Board of Education-as the: in- Strument, to effect another slash in the pay of school teachers. The “patriotism” of O'’Ryan is nothing but the warning that all who resist any wage-cutting assaults on the educational system will automatically become “disloyal.” ¥ The school teachers of New York will not be able to defeat the increesing attacks on the whole structure of educational standards which have been built up if they do not organize boldly against this crude “red scare” of the La Guardia administration. It is those teachers and parents who insist that the infamous Bankers’ Agreement (by which the La Guardia administration pays the Morgan- Rockefeller banks $180,000,000 a year) shall be nullified who are real “patriots.” The “patriotism” of O’Ryan is the “patriot- ism” which defends the interests of a handfui of Wall Street banks against the interest of the vast majority of the city’s population, the pupils, par- ents and teachers. It is only by a determined organization of teach- ers, parents and pupils, in a united front against educational retrenchment, confronting the La- Guardia administration with mass protests and demonstrations that this wage-cutting “patriotism” can be defeated Party Life Chicago Party Sets Fine Example of Unannounced Quick Mobilization During the strike of the Textile Workers, and during the height of the militant struggle of textile Ne workers in the recent strike the| SS workers of Chicago were watching very closely the daily developments | of the strike, as well as express their sympathy with the workers, ing textile The Communist Party, with the Young Communist League, had or- ganized a solidarity demonstration | with the strikers. This action was | staged in front of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, 300 W. Adams Street, owners of the big- gest cotton mills in New Hamp- | Shire, | The demonstration was successful. A large number of members of the | unions of the A. F. of L. partici- | pated, | ae eae | How was this demonstration or- | ganized? First of all, 2,000 leaflets | have been printed, which explained | the whole strike situation. But this | leaflet, was not distributed before | the demonstration. We called an emergency meeting of Party and Y.C.L, members and non-Party | workers. As this was an emergency meeting, we were not able to see all of our unit organizers. There- | fore the meeting was attended by about 50 Party members and about 15 Y.C.Lers. This meeting was called before the demonstration | took place. At the meeting we had leaflets and some signs, with the slogans: “Stop the Murder of Textile Work- | “vote Communist Nov. 6th,” | etc. We explained the strike situa- | | tion, and the task of the Party and the Chicago working class in sup- porting this strike. Then we gave out 2,000 leaflets among all these | comrades who were at the meeting. | Also posters were given to them and | comrades. After ‘all this material | | Was given out, we proceeded in| groups of three and five to the | place where we intended to speak. | When the comrades reached the place about noon, they immediately | | began distributing leaflets as the. workers were coming from the shops | for lunch. After the distribution | of the leaflets we all got into aj group and raised one comrade to | shout slogans. Immediately the | signs were raised and everyhody | began to shout slogans—‘Stop the | Murder of the Textile Workers.” We shouted these slogans at the corner | |for about four or five minutes. Wns 32 pe After this action we proceeded in |a group and were joined by the| | workers, to 300 W. Adams Street, | Where the picket line was formed, hh everybody shouting the slo- ;gans. The picketing was on for about 25 minutes and aroused the attention of the workers in the fac- tories, to such an extent that thou- sands of workers blocked the side- | walks and streets, expressing their | | Sympathy with the textile workers. | Our comrades were so militant | that the shouting of slogans could | be heard for a block. After this action began to get mass propor-| | tions, with thousands of workers | | packing the streets and sidewalks, |the bosses from these factories be- came panic-stricken and called the | Police, the “red squad,” etc. They arrested five workers. The point we want to raise here | is this—that this action was carried successfully for about 40 minutes, without police knowing anything | about it. In the future, with grow- | ing fascist attacks upon the work- |ing class, and above. all upon its revolutionary leader, the Communist Party, we have to begin immediately and seriously to prepare our Party for such actions, demonstrations, etc. Many of our comrades have asked us: “Why this special meeting, you must tell us, we must know what it is all about.” If we had told ;the comrades and workers before- | hand, we might not be able to have such a demonstration, because the police might be on the svot, and as soon as we would have reached the | Place, we would be scattered by the | police. This action shows that the Party | is able to carry on real work if | the question is raised ‘properly, to react to the political events of the day. And we have to prepare our Party and the working class for such actions more than ever before in the history of our Party. Nazi Church _RiftSymptom | | Of Upsurge BERLIN, Oct. 15.—Wide and open publication of anti-Nazi bulletins and the suspension of all marriage, “birth and death ceremonies by the thousands of Protestant churches opposing Hitler's Primate, Mueller, today followed the events of two days ago, when throngs, massing around the Nazi Brown House in | Munich, spat. on the ground deri- | sively and hooted at Hitler, at the Nazi church administzation, and st the whole Fascist government. This symptom of a growing and wider mass offensive against Hii- lerism was from the very first a valve through which escaped part of the hatred of starving and enslaved workers for Fascism and for all that Fascism implies. When on Sept. 23 the new Pri- mate Mueller addressed the new Ger- |man Christians in the great square |of the Berlin Protestant Church, in- |stead of the expecied hundred thousand, four thousand straggled |in to listen, everywhere in Germany THE “PEOPLE’S COURT” vs. ERNST THAELMANN tributor toward his quota on the day it appears. Contributions received to the credit of Burck in were hidden under the coats of the| his socialist competition with Mike Gold, Harry Gannes, “del,” the Medical Advisory Board, Helen Scheme to Plant ‘Bomb’ on Noted Writer Is Revealed By S. J. ZAMORE Never before in the history of Haiti has there existed such a des- potic rule as now exists under the Vincent government. In order to facilitate plundering the masses of Haiti, Vincent's gov- ernmen’ has declared a “state of siege,” for the purpose of keeping the people oppressed. | On Aug. 25, 27 and 28, 15 persons opposed to Vincent's despotism were arrested. A special military court was called to try them. Those ar- | rested included the following: Seven journalists, four writers, two law- yers, one worker and a young girl. Fourteen were accused of “pre- paring for the seizure of power from the Haitian government.” Of these four were condemned and given sentences of from two io three years of hard labor, plus a $1,000) fine. The victims are J. Jolibois, | F. Georges Petit, Marx Collard, and | Marx Hiducourt. | What was the crime committed by these people? The had re- printed and distributed an article published in the “Cri des Negres,” organ of the French Negro workers. The article was published in June, for the purpose of tearing down the screen behind which Vincent hides his face in order to fool the Haitian masses. The article also called on all workers, peasants and intel- lectuals to organize and defend \in care of my sister’s address. The Haitian Government Plots Of J. Romai themselves against the despotic rule | of Vincent. | Frame-up for Romain Now Jaques Romain, the idol of the oppressed classes of Hai.i, whose admiration he has won through his militant and courageous leadership, is being framed. | Seeing the rapid awakening of the backward masses and of the | Defense petit bourgeois intellectuais in the fight against Vincent's dictatorship, and having in mind the shifting of these elements toward the revolu- ; tionary movement in Haiti, a move- ment of which young Jacques Ro- main has been a leading figure, the government is now secrexy panning j to frame Romain on Oct. 22 and to)! send him to the chain gang for ten} years. Through confidential chan- nels I have learned that, Romain) will be accused of receiving a bomb by mail to be used in assassinating | Vincent. Also I was told that I) was very fortunate for not having been arrested by the Vincent gov-| ernment on the same charge. i The basic reason which led to the arrest of Romain Leonia Zamore, my sister, whose arrest was recently reported in the Daily Worker, has up to now never been revealed by| the police or the government. News- | papers know nothing about the facts, How Arrests Wére Made On July 5 two books containing | |Robert Minor’s cartoons were sent |to someone in Haiti named Torelle, | package was opened in the Post Office and the books confiscated. | Since then all letters sent to my | n, Revolutionary by Burck Luke, David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $66,000. QUOTA—$1,000. Total to date $ 90 Frame-Up Leader Military Court Tries 14, Imposes Long Terms at Hard Labor sister were examined. On July 19 two packages containing some ma- terial of the International Labor (Secour Rouge Interna- tional), some copies of “La De- fence,” French organ of the I. L. D., and some “Le Cri des Negres” were forwarded to the same address. Then a letter was sent by air mail to notify Torelle of the arrival of the person who was supposed to carry these packages. Torelle had no way of knowing that the previous package had been confiscated. This last letter was also opened and turned over to the police. As the letter mentioned the date on which this person was to arrive in Haiti, the police arrested him. Following that, other arrests took place. But none of these events have been mentioned up to now. I appeal to all organizations of workers, professionals and _ intel- lectuals to send protests immedi- ately to the President of Haiti, Stenio Vincent, at Port-au-Prince, and to his brother, the Haitian Con- sul here, at 116 Broad St., demand- | ing the immediate release of the} arrested Haitians and to halt their | plans of framing Jacques Romain. | American workers must especially remember that the Haitian masses are being oppressed ‘and exploited | by those who are exploiting and, oppressing them here. Show your| solidarity with them. | inside and out by defiant and em- | bittered workers. Last Wednesday, when the de- posed Bishop Meissner spoke in a small country town, 800 peasants gathered azound, ready, with stones | in their pockets, to answer any | Nazi interference. On the following day police with drawn sabers attacked a crowd cf demonstrators protesting against Meissner’s expulsion. Yesterday pastors throughout the | Rhine valley and Bavaria declared that if their confiscated anti-Nazi literature were not returned to them, they would read it from their pulpits tomorrow morning. The fact that it has been. possible to thousands of workers to demon- strate publicly against, Hitler’s re- gime is certain to encourage the anti-fascist mass struggle every- | where, in town and country, whe:e| resistance is rapidly spreading, in spite of the immediate efforts to hush it up. | Late today comes the report that | the entire church population of Be- varia was in open revolt against | the Nazi-dominated central soy- ernment at Berlin, with Bishop Hans Meisser deposed and prac- tically a prisoner in his palace. A fighting proclamation read to- day at each church service drew resentful and bitter . ejaculations against Reich-bishop Mueller in particular and Hitlerism in general from cverflow congregations ‘in ev- ery parish. Storm troopers and detectives took notes of rebellious clergymen and any statements of Meanwhile Hitler, in an unsuccess- ful attempt to offset any responsi- bility for Mueller’s tyranny, pre- parish churches were overcrowded | jevent in the struggle for the further revolt. | 11 Town Soviets Meet To Discuss Communal | Plans, Construction (Special to the Daily Worker) | MOSCOW, Oct. 15.—A conference | cf the representatives of town sov- iets of eleven towns took place in Gorlovka, meeting in order to ex- change experiences of communal construction and to conclude an agreement on competitions for best serving the needs of the toiling population by municipal economy, According to the agreement the winner of the competiiicn will be the town which shows the. best speed in building new dwelling houses, public buildings and in re- constructing the city economy, for achieving the best architectural form in the new buildings, and for constructing the largest number of | medel dining rooms, clubs, schools, | nurseries, baths, hospitals, etc., etc. It was not by chance that the conference met, in the comparative- | ly small workers’ town in the Don- bas, Gorlovka. Typical for pre-revo- | lutionary Russia, as for every capi- | talist country, the dirty slums of the | workers’ settlement, thanks to the exceptional energy of the local sov- iet and the assistance of the pro- letarian state, became one of the best imprcved towns in the Soviet Union, This conference is a significant growth of culture in the Soviet toiling population. It shows how rapidly the ccuntry of the Soviets is increasing its ability to organize the life of its citizens better and better. ;C. P. in South Africa Presses Fight Against Humiliating Pass-Law By F. P. “To hell with pass-laws” was the large-type headline carried on ithe front. page of the “Umsebenzi,” or- gan of the Communist Party of South Africa, in its issue of Sept. 8. The pass-laws of South Africa require the natives to carry docu- ments whenever they are out late on the streets; when they wish to visit in another town—in short, whenever they move more than a few yards from their masters’ eyes Any native found out late, or away from home, without a special pass to the effect that his employer has given him special permission, is liable to arrest. Against these humiliating pass- laws, the Communist Party of South | Africa has been carrying on agita- tion and struggle. The occasion for the renewal of | the campaign was the granting by the Union Government of specia! exemptions to a few native hangers- on of British imperialist rule. These men are known among the South African natives as “goody-goody boys,” a term which has the same significance as “Uncle Tom” in America. “A few hundred will get exemp- tions, millions will have to carry passes,” says the “Unssebenzi,” and calls upon its readers to undertak> a nation-wide campaign for com- plete abolition of the pass-laws. WORCESTER PARTY CELEBRATION WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 15.— The fifteenth anniversary of the Communist Party will be celebrated here on Sunday, Oct. 21, at 7.30 tended to ignore the widespread tumult. p.m., at the Workers Center, 126 | speak on the fifteen years’ struggle of the Party to become a Bolshevik party of the American workers. Local speakers wiil talk on the history of the Worcester section. The American Workers Chorus will Green Street. A leading member | Present a musical program, | the World Front By HARRY GANNES “Unworthy Nuremberg” Hebrews, 10 | Thaelmann and Whips | HAT the German Protes- tants’ battle against Nazi rule and control of the churches, though deepgoing, is not the main trouble ‘con- fronting the fascist madmen, is shown by the latest and most star- tling speech of Julius Streicher. From beginning to end Streicher’s speech on Sunday was a desperate defense of fascism. To understand Streicher fully, his speech must be placed in its | Proper setting. Streicher is Nazi | district leader in Nuremberg, and jafter the June 30 slaughters, Nu- remberg was picked as the best place for the Nazi congress after |the bloody purge. That is to say, | that of all places in Germany, Hit- |ler picked Nuremberg es the spot where he considered the people |mesi loyal to the Nazi; But it is precisely in Nuremberg + ‘where Streicher now must | say: “The whispering campaign [against fascist rule] is so for- midable that, if I did not know the healthy soul of the German people, I would despair of them and proclaim Nuremberg nn- worthy of the great trust he stowed upon it by Chancellor Hit- ler when he chese it for the an- nual party conclave.” Streicher spent all his time an- swering such whisperings as the |Nazis are fiendish butchers; Ger- many is faced with an economic catastrophe; Hitler whipped Strei- {cher with Streicher’s own riding whip; a widow of one of the June 30 Nazi victims attempted to as- |sassinate Adolf; that the June 30 butchery of the Nazis’ own followers |was a sign of the growing inner jcollapse of the fascist ruling clique, jete., etc. eee peace ALL these statements which are current among the most trusted followers of Hitler in Nu- |temberg, Streicher answered in two ways: First, he threatened arrest and torture to all those found re- peating stories that are spreading \like wildfire throughout Germany; |and second, he branded them as “Jewish lies,” for he said, “the in- jventor and author of these lies is a | Jew, a Jew who wants to cause un- rest.” | To which the Protestant clergy, who endorsed the manifesto of | Bishop Hans Meisser of Bavaria, re- |plied by quoting from that section jof the Bible entitled “Hebrews, 10.” | This is a priestly method of indi- jcating to the Nazis that the masses | no longer believe in the Jewish |atrocity stories, or that the Jew jis the incarnation of the devil; es- ipecially when the biblical quotation |from Hebrews calls for a finish fight jagainst Nazi domination of the church, saying: | “But 'if any man draw back, my | soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back into perdition; but of | them that believe to the saving | of the soul.” . RETURN to Streicher’s speech, |4 He denied that Hitler horse- | whipped him. But he boasted of |the fact that he himself horse- | whipped a defenseless _ prisoner. | The victim was Dr. Steinruck, who was charged with talking against the Nazis and was placed in pre- ventive custody. ‘I went with several party | members into Steinruck’s cell and took a look at the wretch... . He did not act like a man after his big talk. Thereupon I gave him a good beating with my whip.” Heroic Nazi sadist! He has that remarkable bravery that permits him to whip a prisoner surrounded by Nazi gangsters with their hands on their revolvers. But this admis- sion of brutality gives us only a faint flicker of what happens to Communists arrested by the Nazis. How many brave Nazi leaders en- tered the cell of Ernst Thaelmann and “gave him a good beating”? How many times a day is Thael- mann tortured and beaten? With this admission from one of leading Nazi henchmen who brags he would not let Hitler whip him, what sort of “trial” can our Comrade Thaelmann expect when he comes up for Nazi judgment to- day, or within a few days? . HE Nazi fiends are becoming 1 more desperate every day. With growing economic catastrophe, Ger= many is swept by a sea of anti« fascist whisperings, agitation, dis- content, and maturing battles. Un- precedented rancor and bitterness among Protestants is developing in the churches against the fascist scoundrels. People spit, boo and howl against the Nazis in the sa- cred precincts of the Lard. In all avenues of anti-fascist sen- timent, the struggle against fas- cism is maturing. Organizing, pre- varing, knitting together the po- litical instrument which will deal the final death blow to fascism, the Communist Party of Germany works energetically, persistently to mobilize the discontent into an anti-fascist united front capable of ending the whole rotten structure of capitalism, which breeds this mad rule of fascism. The Nazi executioners know this, but cannot ston it. In their fury they are now ready to wreak their vengeance cn Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned leader of the Commu. nist Party. Only the most eners getic and immediate mobilization of united front mass anti-fascist demonstrations will seve him now. Contributions received to the credi* of Harry Gannes in his so- cialist comvetition with Del, Mike Gold, the Medical Advisory Board, :of the District Committee will! Helen Luke, Jacob Burck and David Ramsey, in the Daily Worker drive for $60,000. Quota—s500. Ancnymous, Lawrence, Kan..$5.00 Anonymous ........... Previously Received Total to date .