The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 15, 1935, Page 2

Page 2 DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1935 RED AID CIRCULATES NEW ILLEGAL PAMPHLET IN BERLIN: A Fresh Wave of Revolt Seen Brewing in Spa 18 Defendants Chicago District Issues | valve anys Challenge to Cleveland | ee) On Daily Worker Drive Anti-Fascist Booklet Cites Work Methods Negro Yous Wed to White Girl, Is Held Spanish Revolution Not “WeWillBe Framed Like : . ‘ eee. Sioux City Newspa rs Workers Called Upon Illegal Revolutionary Spanish Paper th } 2 pre 7 : V ished. CP Deputy ’ |Mooney” They Warn in (Special to the Daily Worker) | Launch Race Hatred To Flood Goering Yanquished, “2 dant : y | CHICAGO, IIL, Jan. 14—With 30 delegates from Canes With Protests from France Says Proletarios de todos los pafses, unfos! Call for Support |Communist Party units and mass organizations coneurring,| ‘ ‘ ene ees ak (Special to the Dally Worker) SACRAMENTO, Calif,, Jan. 14—| the Chicago District of the Communist Party yesterday| stoux crry. Jowa, Jan. 14—A PARIS, Jan. 14.—Peri, member of the Chamber of Deputies, has re- turned to Paris from a ten-day tour of Spain. He visited Barcelona, pamphlet which in the last f jays has been distributed in Berlin by the thousands, and which every German worker here has at least “Just as Mooney and Billings pers challenged Cleveland to a Socialist competition in the Daily framed eighteen years ago, so will’ Worker circulation and subscription drive : \ . je be alee ee is es ee Chicago's quota is 1,500 daily subs and 2,250 Saturday | white girl who married a Negro | worker who had gone to her de- |fense when a white man insulted metal aaa - ee heard of, reveals the power of the aniti-fascist movement and illustrates certain methods of carrying on the illegal anti-faseist struggle. Here is the text “Save Broede and Matern and all other anti-fascists menaced with execution! “The Leipzig judges have now confirmed the death sentence passed ‘on Friedrich Broede and Max Ma- tern, the two anti-fascists concerned im the Lenk-Anlauf trial. They Were sentenced to death although the judges could not prove that they had fired at the two police officers. Thus two more victims are to be added to the forty-three al-| ready executed and the fifty still | Waiting in the condemned cell. Calis on Workers | “None of them has commitied | murder! They have been condemned only because they have been and still are unshakable anti-fascists. | “Wol rs of every description! Prevent these new murders! You Christian workers, the fas- cists have killed and tortured your leaders, Klausner and Probst, and many more of your brethern. “You Social-Democrats, they have murdered, persecuted your Fechen- bach and numbers of other good and loyal comrades. “You, members of the Storm Troop and Nazi opposition, whose comrades fell on June 30. . “You, non-party workers and in- tellectuals, from whose ranks came Erich Muehsam, who was murdered, and Ossietsky, who was tortured, and many, many other victims. , “You, Communists, the fascists have killed your John Scheer, Erich Steinfurth, and thousands of others of your best, and are seeking to murder your leader Ernst Thael-| mann. “You women, whose husbands and sons are in the clutches of the fascist murderers “From all of you—your protestations! 5 Urges Postcard Campaign “Only by expressing your protests in a body against these new mur- -ders will you force Hitler, Goering and company to rescind the execu- tion of the death sentences. “Save those who are threatened With death! In every factory, in every organization, in every house, | either singly or collectively, write| letters or postcards—even anony- mous ones—demanding the repeal of the death sentences and send them to Hitler, Goering and the} = Mhister of Justice. = “Send greetings to the condemned Zand to all political prisoners, show- Sing that you are thinking of them Zand fighting in their behalf. a} “Do not wait! Human lives are in Eaquestion! Save the condemned! Save Fall victims of the fascist terror!” = _ The pamphlet is signed by the = German Red Aid, Berlin District. loudest = $ Hans Eisler Will Arrive { Here Jan. 27 Dearest =’ ‘The Anti-Nazi Federation has re- Zceived word from abroad that = Hanns Eisler, noted German com- | ‘poser, will arrive in this country on ior about Jan. 27. ® This famous revolutionary com- Poser, who has been living in exile | dn Paris and London since the ad- 4 vent of Hitler, is well known both gin Europe and America for his € brilliant compositions, which in- = clude “Kuhle Wampe,” “Hell On = Earth,” “Comintern,” “Massnahme,” = “Tempo der Zeit,” “Rot Front,” etc. Despite his absence from Ger- Many and the official banning of = his songs under the National So- | cialist regime, records of many of his songs are played in workers’ $ homes throughout that country. } g His arrival in America marks the ; f further extension of an interna- * tional tour which has so far in- + cluded lectures and concerts in =. Leningrad, Moscow, Copenhagen, .Brussels, Paris and London. The Hanns Eisler Tour Commit- | = tee, composed of representatives of « the Workers’ Music League, John | * Reed Clubs, League of Workers’ | =. Theatres, Workers’ Dance League, =. Anti-Nazi Federation, German * Workers Clubs and other groups, are =’ preparing for an outstanding re-| 2 ception for this courageous revolu- © tionary musician and composer for | _ February 8th. Plans include an * informal reception and banquet at | the New School for Social Research, ‘a concert which will present Eisler’s compositions in vocal solo, chorus fand instrumental renditions, and, later, a° mass meeting at which Hanns Eisler and others will speak. | % ZT veneers 2. 3 3 (eecerecs Meeting to Prepare Women’s Day Rally Planned for Detroit: Tata tesy DETROIT, Mich., | meeting to prepare for March 8, International Women’s Day, will be. theld on Monday, Jan. 28th, 8 p. m.,| at the Finnish Workers Hall, 5969 14th Street. The meeting will con- sider proposals of how to carry on a wide campaign throughout the | district particularily among the in- | women, to celebrate oe Jan. 14—A eso prertu:h the P «iE ; 3 Z | their | They understand and agree when Madrid and Oviedo, and met many Communist and social-democratic worker functionaries, numerous per- sons belonging to other parties, members of the Cortes and work- ers who took an active part in the insurrection. Asked by our corre- | spondent to give his general im- pression, Peri stated that, in the first place, the Spanish revolution | had not been vanquished, but at the | moment Spain is in a state of quiet | in which forces are being reorgan- ized in order to employ them in the future. It must be emphasized, declared | Peri, that fascism has not won the | battle in Spain. There can be no} comparison between what one sees in Spain and what one saw in Ger- many a few weeks after the fascists took over power there. Our correspondent: “But the workers have been suppressed in Asturias; wholesale arrests are still taking place, which are bound to| have a depressing effect?” Fresh Arrests Peri: “It is true, our friends suf- fered serious losses. Forty thou- sand revolutionaries are in prison. Fresh arrests are taking place every day. Many revolutionaries are threatened with death, especially our Comrade Gonzales Pena. The state of seige still remains in force and with it the censorship, while the workers’ organziations are only semi-legal.” In reply to our correspondent’s question whether the workers do not feel that they have suffered a/| severe defeat and whether despond- | ent elements are not going over to Besteiros, Peri replied: No Feeling of Defeat “Not in the least. The working class is not depressed. Its organ- izations are almost entirely intact. | Its stores of weapons have not been | confiscated by a long way. fused to resume work under the conditions dictated by the govern- ment. They demonstrated against | these conditions and the govern- | ment was compelled to retreat. “Among the lower organizations | of this party, especially among the youth, the movement for ithe} formation of # ‘united revolutionary | party of # Bolshevist character’ -is | growing, Both the © Communist | Party and the Socialist Party are continually gaining fresh members. United Front Strengthened Our correspondent asked Peri whether the. united front between | the Communists and the Socialists had not been shaken by the false | attitude of the Socialist Party to’ the question of the revolution. Peri replied: “No, it is stronger and | firmer than ever. The Communists and Socialists in the prisons are exercising a severe self-criticism as demanded by our Party. The So- cialist workers realize that it is | necessary not only to abandon their | technical-military idea of the revo- lution, but at the same time to free | themselves from the reformism of leaders, such as Besteiros. | our comrades point out that mass | work in the army is more important | than the methods adopted by the! | have myself been told that a num ber of Socialist leaders are inclin- ‘HE taps, tas ect, mole) fae Uae gran sslvajeds tec wig at BOLET. nn DONDE SS eee ther Dhar WH CA IEUNION DE L G MAS QUE Eh dasa te jomade te brs Los motalargicos de Zaragoza y Bercelons ge lanzan a la hueiga general IN_DE INFORMACIO ‘mieaiio #6 Eu PARTIDO CO | MacNISTA DE rerARA i REPRODUOCION | beats A IETRANACIONAL SOCLALIOTS NUNCA, PRENTE UNICO Socialist Party of winning the sym- | district have a genuine respect for) pathy of a number of officers. I ing toward our view of the dicta- torship of the proletariat.” | “Why has the Spanish bourgeoi-| low the revolutionaries the possibil- ity of semi-illegal activity?” our correspondent asked. | To this question Peri replied: | In| “That is very simple. The bourgeoi- | «Tt am convinced,” replied Peri, “that Oviedo the workers absolutely re-| Sie cannot do otherwise. The gov-|a fresh wave of revolt will soon | ernment already before the insul-| sweep Spain. The most immediate | rection was unable to solve a single) one of the tasks it had set itself. | Now the problems are, of course, |much more difficult than formerly.) erything is being done in order to| There are fierce conflicts between | the capitalist groups. The agrarian| and to consolidate them on the| reform is combatted by the big landowners. It has proved impos- sible: to form a bloc of the Right wing elements. The government does not venture to dissolve the Cortes, the functions of which, in spite of everything, are a hindrance to the dictatorship of the bourgeoi- sie. The revolutionary movement is | so strong that it finds sympathy in! broad circles, while the bourgeois cliques are quarrelling over the divi- sion of the profits. As a result, it is impossible to introduce open brutal | fascism,” | Population Against Suppression Asked by our correspondent to give some examples of the sympa- thy of the broad masses for the rev- | olution, Peri replied: “Take Astu- rias, for example. One can safely say that the whole population, with- out distinction of classes, is against | the campaign of suppression, espe- | cially against the abominable deeds of the Foreign Legion and the Mo- Relief Office Called Firetrap (Continued from Page 1) calls, emergency medical calls, were | not treated on the same day as the call was made because of inadequate telephone equipment, she declared. She gave a vivid picture of the red | tape that a sick. unemployed worker in New York City must go through before he can get medical attention from the richest city in the coun- | try. According to the procedure | she outlined, the client must first | call the relief bureau; the relief | bureau then calls the Borough Of- fice; the Borough Office then calls the General Office, which then pro- ceeds to go all the way back down the line. Councils Brought In The Unemployment Councils were brought into the situation during | the testinmony earlier in the day by | Mr. Bogart. One of his difficulties, he claimed in the reception room, was the Unemployment Councils. “They stand around,” he said. | “What is this Unemployment | Council?” he was asked. “Tell us what you know about it.” | “Thev termed themselves as in- | terested in the cases,” Bogart an- swered. vealed here also. Telephone service was inadequate in Precinct 82. Miss Thesbold disclosed that medical cases were often compelled to come into the Bureau in a sick condition because of inability to get attention | by the use of the phone. vealed many months ago by the Home Relief Bureau Employes As- sociation, the protective association strated in front of Home Relief Bureau Director Edward Corsi’s of-| fice, last Saturday. Don’t allow your copy of the Daily Worker to lie around the house. Leave it on the subway or street-car or give it to someone | else. movement by the revolutionaries. At the same time, however, they are filled with indignation at the atroci- sie not set up a more rigorous fas- | lic opinion the government was | cist dictatorship and why does it al-| compelled to recall Deval, the friend rocean troops. The bourgeois in this! we shall be victors.” ‘To Hold Daily Worker the exemplary leadership of the| ties committed by the government troops. Under the pressure of pub- of Gil Robles.” | “The official communiques about | the ‘restoration of order’ are there- fore lies?” said our correspondent. and important task that the Com- | munist Party has set itself is the organization of the revolution. Ev-| strengthen the workers’ alliances | basis ef the factories. There still exists one weak spot: the peasantry. | ‘The peasants are still under the im- pression of the defeat they suffered | in June (strike of the landworkers | and small holders), but their misery | is so appalling that fascism has been unable to build a powerful movement in the rural districts as it desired. “In any case our comrades are full | of confidence. They believe that in| spite of all mistakes, for which the | false attitude of the socialists to the revolution is responsible, the move- ment would have been victorious in} October if Companys had armed the Workers’ Alliances, or if he had| only held out a day longer, for then | the moyement would have spread to Madria. Our comrades say: because | we have learned much, and because the socialist workers in particular have learned much and corrected their mistakes, next time—and this! next time will be in a few months— | publicity to the true facts of the| jease, unless there is immediate | mass protest.” | This statement was made yester- day in an appeal issued to the toil- | ing population of the United States by the eighteen workers facing long | prison sentences here under the | framed-up charge of violating the| California criminal syndicalist law. | Their trial will open this Wednes- | day morning, after several weeks of vigorous struggle by the defense against the packing of the jury by| the prosecution with vigilantes and | other anti-working class elements. The defendants have already spent six months in jail. If convicted, they face maximum sentences of | eighty-four years each, or a total of | 1,512 prison years, | In their appeal to the toiling | masses, the defendants cite briefly the labor activities for which they | were arrested and framed up: “Our arrests last July 20, followed | immediately on the San Francisco General Strike and were part of the lawless vigilante raiding of workers’ headquarters and homes throughout the state. Most of us have been prominent in agricultural strikes—strikes which gave exploited field and cannery workers twenty- five to 100 per cent wage increases. We have helped organize argicul- tural and industrial workers, the unemployed, farmers, students, pro- fessional and white collar workers.” “While Section 7-A of the N.R.A. supposedly guarantees the right of workers to organize to better their | conditions, the machinery of the federal and state governments are directed to thwart this right, | through the ‘National Run Around’ | arbitration policies of Roosevelt, the use of troops to crush strikes, and the frame-up of workers, as in the case of the eighteen Sacra- mento defendants. “The chief tool behind the pro- secution is former District Attorney McAllister, whom the people repu- diated at the last election,” the de- | fendants point out. | “The line-up of forces in the trial explains all. It is finance-capital | versus labor. The prosecution is backed by the Chambers of Com- merce, the banks, the Power Trust, | the Industrial Association, the As- sociated Farmers, Inc., American | Legion heads and big business. ‘The | defense is organized labor and all | the issues of humanity for which | it stands, and all those who stand | for repeal of the criminal syndi- | calist law.” Protests against the frame-up and | demands for the release of the de- fendants and repeal of the crim- inal syndicalist law should be sent | to Judge Dal M. Lemon, presiding | at the trial; Otis D. Babcock, Dis- trict Attorney, and Governor Frank | Merriam, all at Sacramento, Calif. General ‘Mine Strike Looms In Belgium | Banquet in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14—Elab- | orate plans are now being made for | These were the conditions re-|the eleventh annual Daily Worker | | banquet to be held here Saturday | evening, Jan. 19, at 8 o'clock at the of relief workers, which demon- CUltural Center, 230 South Spring | insurance. The government Trades | Street. “The Role of the Workers’ Press” will be the subject of the principal speech at the banquet by Lawrence Ross, co-editor of the Western Worker of San Francisco. Repre- sentatives from all mass organiza- tions are expected to be present to | (Special to the Daily Worker) | BRUSSELS, Jan. 14 (By Wire- | | less)—A twenty-four hour general | strike of all miners in Belgium be- came possible today when mass pressure forced the National Miners’ Committee to make proposals for an immediate investigation into measures of general unemployment | Union Commission refuses to apply | any official decrees that might re- lieve oppressive conditions of work | and wages. Don’t allow your copy of the | Daily Worker to lie around the house. Leave it on the subway or subs. the May Day celebration. Cleveland’s is 800 daily and 1,200 Saturday subs. In addition to the free trip to the Soviet Union offered by the Daily Worker, as a first prize, Chicago’s second prize in the subscription contest is a free trip to New York for! War in Saar Basin (Continued from Page 1) appeared such falsehoods as that Max Braun and Fritz Pford, re- spectively, the leaders of the So- cialist and Communist Parties of the Saar, had fled from the ter- ritory, that the anti-fascist organ, Volkstimme, had been transferred to France, etc. to the polls. Nikolay, the Young Braun and Pford, on the con- trary, were traveling from town to town in an open car, conduct- ing the struggle for the status quo. Placards of the status qao were torn down or dirtied and nails strewn in the streets of anti- fascist quarters to hinder walking to the polls, Nikolay, the Young Communist leader, was brutally beaten by Nazis and in many places revolver shooting was directed against anti-fascists. That the toiling population of the Saar is very soon to taste a full measure of the “economics” of Hit- lerism is vouchsafed by Hermann Roechling, chief fascist industrialist of the Saar. Concentration Camps Ordered “A certain number of Commu- nists,” Roechling declared, “will be sent to concentration camps.” In- terviewing this economic represen- tative of fascism in the Saar. C. A. confessed that for sheer cold- blooded detail of impending cruelty and barbarism soon to be-meted out to workers of the Saar Roechling’s statement was unparalleled. These are some of the “reforms” about to be instituted, Roechling promised: 1. All the unemployed of the Saar, numbering about 40,000, will be forced into German-type forced labor camps, 2. “A few foolish clergy will be removed from their offtce—by their bishops, not by us.” 3. Employees of the civil service. to be reduced from a personnel of 3,000 to 300. will henceforth labor under conditions of terrific speed- up. 4. Of the present force of 800 Police 200, “known to be disloyal,” will be dismissed. 5. All members of the United Front of Socialist and Commu- nists will be “isolated.” “We have promised not to do them any harm, but we have not promised to do them any good.” “These men,” Hitler's deputied butcher declared, “will be treated like peo- ple with a contagious disease.” The broad groups of the United Liberty Front, including religious as well as trade-union groups, have vowed that under no circumstances will they yield to a fascist regime. They have announced that an in- tense struggle will be conducted to force the League of Nations to pre- vent the return of the Saar to Hit- Jer Germany, whatever the doubtful results of the terrorized plebscite may be. I. W. 0. TO INSTAL OFFICERS NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 14.—Branch (512 of the International Workers Order will celebrate the installa- ition of new members tomorrow night at 516 Clinton Street, Newark, Admission for the evening of en- ‘give greetings to the Daily Worker. | street-car or give it to someone else. tertainment and dancing will be ‘fifteen cents. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 14—The, sky is the limit when San Diego | public officials go off on junket} trips, that is if the expenses are paid | by the thousands of impoverished | working and ~iiddle class taxpayers who foot the bill and who were held | up for a tax rate of $6.03 on every | “How often do they come in?” | he was asked. | “They come in twice a day, five or six at a time. They bring in| clients with them.” | “You have the choice of dealing with them or throwing them out with the aid of the police, don’t you?” “Yes,” Bogart answered. “But you find it better to deal with them, don’t you?” a < Feg “How often were their complaints | justified?” the questioner continued. | “I should judge about 50 per cent | of the time,” Bogart concluded. Other Bureaus Cited A somewhat similar situation was | brought out by Miss Harriet Theo- Precinct No. 82, Adams and Con- $100 assessed value here this year. Councilman A. W. Bennett ade! a little trip to Washington, D. C.| last January to get RFC money for | El Capitan and Hodges dams. He| was gone only 73 days. He has} waited nearly a year before turning | in an accounting of his expenses on | the trip, for which he was advanced | $1,000 last January. Possibly the rea- | son he has finally decided to turn in} his expense account is that the county Grand Jury has taken a) great interest in his visit to Wash- ington and has invited him on sev- | eral occasions to tell them all about | it. Bennett claims he is the loser and as a consequence of his little trip | of 73 days. Although he actually | | bold. Administrative Supervisor of | spent $2,110 on the trip, he says he | will charge the city only $1,164.67 | TAXPAYERS The Sky Is the Limit tor New Deal Salesmen FOOT BILL FOR COUNCILMAN’S JUNKET TRIP “I put up nearly dollar for dollar with the city on these trips out of my own pocket,” Bennett said as left the grand jury chamber. The trips to which he referred numbered |two to Washington and several} shorter ones within the state. Following is some of the expenses of the councilman of his 73 day visit to the capitol: First Day's Expenses in Washington Jan, 29 Breakfast Taxi from airport TIPS eiss see Room . Telegraph Telephone Lunch Dinner Tipe 53x Total .... His second day’s expenses ran to $17.75; $4 of which were spent for | that he suffered great financial loss, | Valet service, Covers 8 Full Pages The expense account covers eight full pages and lists 376 entries. Bennett spent $287.60 for trans- cord Avenues, Brooklyn, which she | of this expense, which leaves him | portation; going to Washington he described as city.” tions for the relief | staff was re-! ($10 a council session), i “the largest in the | loser by $945.33. San Diego coun- | rode by airplane from Los Angeles The same miserable condi-| cilmen receive $600 a year salary | (where he stayed four days before leaving the capitol) and paid $20.20 for “excess baggage” and $3 for in- surance. He paid $241.15 for rooms, at $5 a day, and for 15 days at $3.21 daily and then for 30 days at $2.90. | Valet service cqst him $16.90. The highest he spent a day for meals was $12, on March 16, and on three other days his meals exceeded $10.80; the total amount for meals consumed by the councilman was $304.65 (over 2,000, 15 cent meals could be bought for this sum). He paid $35.45 for taxis, but for 25 days, according to his expense he didn’t use a taxi. One hundred three dollars and seventy-four cents went for telephone and telegraph bills; on March 7th he spent $22.90 for phone calls alone. He paid $113.83 for tips and _ incidentals. Twenty dollars and thirty-five cents for laundry. On March 15, the day before he spent $12 for meals on March 16, he paid $15 for stenog- rapher service and spent a total of | $31.10 for this service. To Line Up New Dealers The errand on which the coun- cilman hurried off to Washington with $1,000 expense in his pockets last January, was that of lining up the “New Dealers” for finances for repairing and constructing new account, he must have walked, since | water projects. At the primaries, last August, the voters of San Diego rejected the councilmen’'s plans to saddle them with huge bond issues for financing these same projects. Bennett, in explaining the reason for some of his high daily meal bills, gave out a tip to all prospective Hunger Marchers. Bonus Marchers and workers’ delegations who go to Washington to place their demands before the Roosevelt “New Deal” government. He said the meals ran high, because, when contacting gov- ernment officials it was often easier to mect them at the dinner table than in their offices. Then 17,632 families (close to 21,000 individuals) on the SERA re- lief rolls in San Diego county, who during the last two weeks of Decem- ber received as their Christmas present from Roosevelt's FERA and the state of California a distribu- tion of rotten canned beef, windfall and runty canned peaches, cheese, rice and sugar (many on relief com- | Plained they never reecived sugar, and raany complained they never received rice), are following the Grand Jury's investigation of Coun- cilman Bennett's little 74-day junket to Washington with more than Passive interest, Lyon of the London Sunday Express | | Nazis Set for Civil Hauptmann Is Aided by Hearst (Continued from Page 1) Wilentz is an affidavit showing that Abe Samuelson, the Bronx carpven- ter, who, Dr. Condon admitted. he was used to carry the Lindbergh ransom money, also constructed the ladder which the State contends was used by Hauptmann to kidnap the Lindbergh money, Samuelson also swore that three others in ad-| dition to Hauptmann called for the| ladder. Samuelson’s shop is a block away from Dr. Condga’s home. When Condon was on the witness stand, he asserted that he had forgotten the address of the carpenter whom he had asked to construct the box. Josephson also declared that agents of the Department of Justice had warned him against talking. But Josephson did talk—to Mr. Hearst, outsnoken defender of fas- cism in the United States, outspoken admirer of the Nazi murderer in Berlin who has sent handwriting experts to Flemington to defend his adherant Hauptmann. And Mr. Hearst's N. Y. American reminded Attorney-General Wilentz today that Samuelson had given him an affidavit with the above information months ago. Reluctant to Use Affidavit But Wilentz, who has a personal interest in prosecuting Hauptmann, has a class interest in keeping the Lindbergh household free of any scandal that might limit the use- fulness so the capitalist class of the “greatest” hero of modern times. After admitting that he knew of Samuelson’s affidavit, Wilentz de- clared that he didn’t expect to use it at the trial! And Reilly, former chief counsel for Art Smith, Khaki shirt leader, whose reputation as a criminal lawyer has not prevented a large proportion of his “clients” from going to the electric chait, is also reluctant to use the newly-un- covered evidence because of the dis- closures which he would be forced to reveal if Samuelson took the stand. The persistent Hearst is continu- ing to raise doubts as to the guilt of the Nazi defendant with a long criminal record. His.N. Y. Journal today, in a leading editorial beneath one of his daily attacks against the Communist International, describes Hauptmann as “a devoted husband and father .. . quiet. mild, soft- spoken,” and “the forgotten man” in the case. As both prosecution and defense attorney sought to hide the ¢lass significance of the case by shadow boxing over relatively details, Reilly forced Albert Osborn, the State's chief handwriting expert, to admit on the stand today that the ransom note found in the Lindbergh baby’s crib on the night of the alleged kid- naping was “slightly different” from the other notes, all of which, Os- born stated, were written by Haupt- mann. Two of Reilly's handwriting ex- perts, stating that although they weren't “certain that Hauptmann wrote the notes they couldn't say that he didn’t,” resigned from the defense staff over the weekend. State Contradicts Itself Though Reilly, whose failure to press all his points, has been com- mented on by newspapermen here and has been intimated in one of the capitalist papers, is fearful of allowing the case to break wide open, one of his assistants, C. Lloyd Fisher, stated yesterday that the contention by the State that Haupt- mann is the only one guilty of the crime contradicts the entire trial and conviction here of John Curtis, Norfolk shipbuilder, who was sen- tenced to jail in 1982 because the State contended and proved that Curtis had information which he refused to divulge cncerning a gang which kidnaped the Lindbergh baby. “If Curtis was guilty as charged,” Fisher said, “Hauptmann eannot be guilty as charged,” that is, of com- mitting the crime alone, ~~. Reilly is continuing his prepara- tions to try to prove that not only did Fisch, the Jewish furrier, kid- nap and murder the Lindbergh baby, but that he forged the ran- som notes supposedly written by Hauptmann. Twin Cities Face Motor Tie-Up As Gas Station Workers Vote on Strike MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 14— The Twin Cities face a complete tie-up of motor transportation as filling station employes are ready to come cut in a sympathy strike with the 2,209 striking garage mechanics. The local filling station workers are to take a strike vote tonight. The labor movement of both | police terror with seven strikers shot by policemen and armed thugs last week, had asked to construct the box that | cities is aroused over the reign of | her, the Negro bridegroom and a Negro witness to the ceremony have | been thrown into jail hese. n The couple, 18-year-old Doris Chase and 22-year-old Hartwell G. | Bonner, 617 West Seventh Street, were married last Tuesday by Rev. C. A. Burke, Negro pastor of the Mount Zion Chirch, on a marriage license issued by the ‘clerk of the district court. The license lists |Bonner as a Negro and the gitl' as | white. 3 i Following the marriage, the local {boss press started a campaign of | chauvinist incitement against the | Young couple, on the lines of a sim- |ilar campaign conducted by the | Hearst press in Chicago in the case of Jane Emery Newton, whom a Chicago court tried to have ‘ad- judged insane because she had married a Negro worker, Herbert Newton, a leader of the Communist. Party. Frame-up Machine Functions Pressure was brought. to bear upon the girl’s mother, both by the boss press and “shocked” city offi- cials, and the mother, Mrs. V. A. Chase, 914 Grandview Boulevard, is reported by the police to have re- quested “that her daughter. be ar- rested and held in jail until she could have the marriage annulled,” The girl had not been living with her mother, but was staying at 1304 West Fourth Street at the time of her marriage. The mother bases her move to annul the marriage on the claim that the girl is only 17 years old, although her daughter gives her age as over 18, Juvenile authorities have rushed into ‘the situation to “investigate” the case, with a view to preparing a frame- up against the girl’s husband and the witness to the ceremony. The outlines of the proposed frame-up is already evident in the holding charge of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor,” on which Bonner and the witness, ‘William B. Payne, are held. The charge against Payne is based on the fact that he. was a witness to the marriage, and that the marriage was performed at his home. , Trial Next Friday. . The’ two Negro-youths have been ordered ‘held in- $500: bail each by Municipal Judge H. R: Kenaston for trial this coming Friday.. Both pleaded not guilty.to ¢he framed-up charge. “ “Bonner declined to comment-on the marriage, aside from: saying he had known Doris for a long time. In her cell Doris sobbed out: the story of their romance. They had gone to grade and high school to- gether and had been friends a long time, she said. Last November, she related, a white man insulted her in a barba- cue place onthe West Side, and Bonner went to her defense. It was then, she said, she first realized that she loved him. ( “T love him, I love him,” the girl sobbed, declaring she could not un- derstand the furore raised in the local press because she had married. the man of her choice. . Protests Planned = -The County Attorney conferred yesterday with the girl’s mother re- garding steps to procure an an- nulment and for a juvenile court order to commit the girl to the state training school for girls at Mitchellville. Meantime, class-conscious white and Negro workers here are planning a protest campaign against the at- tempt of city officials to restrict the freedom of the individual in the Private matter of marriage, and by this and other methods to prevent fraternization of Negro and white workets and to block their growing unity in the struggle against unem- ployment, starvation, Fascism and war. Many workers have expressed. a determination to be present at the trial Friday to express their op- position against race hatred and discrimination and the whole mon- Strous oppression of the Negro masses. 12 Seized for Protest. on Brutality in C.C.C. NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 14—Hear- |ing has been postponed to Jan. 23 for Frank Carlson, district organiz- er of the Young Communist League and eleven other young workers who were arrested on Saturday for picketing C. C. C. headquarters in Protest against the brutal suppres- sion of the West Orange C.C.C, strike. Workers in Newark and West Or- ange are urged to telephone their Protests against the prosecution of the twelve to Judge Seymour at Market 2-2660 or to address written demands for the freedom of the Pickets to Judge Seymour's office az | 24 Commerce Street, Newark. Funds for defense should be sent to the offices of the International Labor Defense, 196 Market Street. Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party has declared: “We are only playing around with the Daily Worker until we have given it a minimum circu. lation of 100,000 copies a day. To set the goal of 199,000 circulation is cerely to reach those workers with whom we are already in contact ...” What are you do- ing to get your contacts to bee come regular subscribers? oo