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that it would be easier to go thru
the institution at their disposal. On
the next day Dittmar surprised in his
room in the student home stranger
who was searching thru his pocket
book.
Meet in Professors Home
After much questioning this latter
laughingly presented Dittmar with a
green credentials card of the Berlin
police presidium and promised to
bring search warrant" However
he did not return. After this search
by which the papers establishing Ditt-
mars membership OF the o. c. could
be established, he received at the end
of August an invitation to a new ses-
sion with Kindermann and Wolscht in
the home Of Professor Thysson, Kant
Strasse, which was occupied by Kim
dermann in the, absence OF it's owner.
Here Dittmar learnt from Kinder
mann that economic espionage in the
interests OF the German heavy indus
trialists in Russia was also one OF the
aims OF the expedition. In his Journey
to South Germany Kindermann had
established connections with the Ba-
den Aniline Factory, with Gruetzner
LAM and with the Michael concern.
To preserve the scientific appear
ance OF the expedition, Kindermann
established relations with Professor
Nansen. Oscar Spengler and Professor
Einstein. In Darmstadt the well
known Professor Oesterreicher whose
wife is Russian counter-revolution
ary who was formerly acquainted
with Trotsky. visited Kindermann.
From her Kindermann was to receive
letter OF recommendation to Trot-
sky, in this period Kindermann and
wolscht received honorarium advanc-
es from the Berliner Tageblatt which
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money Dittmar used to equip the ex-
pedition. Dittmar was entrusted with
the procuring of the Russian visas,
should he be successful he was to
send a telegram to Kindermann in
South Germany with the text: Con
gratulations on the birth"
Planned to Kill Stain.
After the return OF Wolscht and
Kindermann to Berlin a third session
took place at the house of Wolscht,
Michaelkirch Strasse 26. Berlin.
Here Kindermann explained the de-
tails OF the expeditions plans to Rus
sia and reported upon his connections
in South Germany. Kindermann sub
initted the following plan for the ter
rorist activity in Soviet Russia:
/. Reliable reconoitering OF the
Kremlin and its internal organization
2. Sounding of the financing OF the
Communist Party of Germany.
3. Sounding Of the correspondence
channels between the Comintern and
the c. p. G. and the ascertainment OF
possible connections between the Co.
mintern and the foreign political rep
reservations.
4. Ascertainment Of the homes and
methods of life OF the leading Russian
Communists.
5. After carrying out all prepare.
tions, then the carrying out OF at.
tempts upon Stain and Trotsky and.
II possible, later on Zinoviev and Djer.
jlnsky.
Police Knew OF Plot.
After the session drinking party
took place during which Wolscht and
Kindermann informed Dittmar in con.
fldence that the police presidium had
approached the o. c. with the request
that the expedition should find out in
Russia II there were Communist fugi.
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Forge Communist Credentials.

OF8C communist OIC0CUttdtos
To mask the expedition, Kinder
mann was to establish relations with
Russian and German scientific circles
and to spread reports publicly OF his
coming scientific expedition to Russia.
Further, someone was to be sought
for having connections with the So
Wet power or who at least had a com
mand of the Russian language. The
Russian trade delegation and the Rus
sian embassy in Berlin were to be in
formed of the expedition and request
ed to provide recommendation to
Lunacharsky, Krupskaya, etc.
Arrangements we're further made TO
provide false party credentials of the
Communist Party OF Germany. All
communications for the expedition in
Moscow from Germany we're to so
thru a confidential agent in the Ger
man embassy In Moscow.
High German Official a Spy.
Dittmar declares that he learned in
Moscow that this work OF maintain
ing connections was carried out by
Legationsrat (high official in German
embassy Hilger.
In case of arrest an arranged tele-
gram was to be sent to Berlin with
the text: How is Herr Gruenbaum? ?"
Should the undertaking prove sue.
cessful, the return journey was plan
ned over China and America. In case
their plans should be upset, the Junk.
er company was to provide an aero.
plane for a fight to Persia or to tho
west.
In the beginning Kindermapn and
Wolscht had no confidence in Dittmar
and demanded complete particulars
about him, whereupon Dittmar direct
ed them to the o. c. in Munich. Kind.
ermann however was Of the opinion
r.n4 q
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German Fascists Reveal Plot Against Soviet Leader

gives the purpose OF his journey as
he "betterment OF scientific connec-
ions" between Russia and Germany.
loud laughter).
Kindermann declares that he pre-
sented himself to Dittmar as a Com
munist He says verbally: Il had no
desire to prostitute my Communist
opinions. could however not present
myself openly as a Communist as in
this way | would have been unlucky
with business people," Replying to
the question of the prosecutor as TO
his present opinions Kindermann says,
up to the time of my departure from
schlesische railway station | was a
Communist (Great amusement).
The chairman reminded Kinder
mann that the latter had said on tho
first day OF the trial that he had no
interest for politics. And that now he
declares that formerly he had an ac-
tive interest in politics. With an air
OF reflection Kindermann answers
Very few people have political con-
victions the rest is only daily opin.
ions"
The details which Kindermann then
gave upon Communism called forth
storms of laughter. In relation to the
scientific reason" for his journey to
Russia. Kindermann declares that he
wanted to learn the life OF the polar
inhabitants in Jakutsk. Originally he
wanted to go to Greenland as he had
good connections with Denmark.
(amusement).
Kindermann attempted to evade the
question Of the prosecutor who asked
him about his present political opin-
ions. Finally to the question: "Are
you a right German nationalist or
notg' he answers after some heslta-
tion; mo, but good German
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tives there and under what names
they lived.
After the receipt OF the visas a
quick start was prepared. The origin
ally arranged time in July. 1924. was
however postponed as Kindermann
wanted TO take the Indian professor
Chariri who II is said was in Russia in
1922 and made the acquaintance of
Lenin, with the expedition to disguise
it still further. This postponed the
start till the autumn as Chariri gave
evasive answers. The last discussion
before the departure took place at the
end OF September in the room of Dit
mar in the students home in the Bor-
sig Strssse, Room Sc. Here Kinder
mann informed Dittmar Of his discus
sion with Michaelis, Ehrhardt and
Rose.
kindermann Admits Meetings.
Ehhrhardt had figured under the
name, EhrenbufS. II was there dc
cided that Dittmar should leave in
three days. Kindermann and wolscht
Wlsneu 10 make nalt IN hoenigs-
berg in order to discuss and negotiate
with members OF the o. c. there. The
meeting place was arranged in Riga
for the 18th OF October In eonse.
Quence OF the bad connections be-
tween the island OF Oesel where Dit.
mar stayed and Riga, he arrived in
Riga only on the 18th. Wolscht and
Kndermann had however already
travelled further as otherwise the
yisas would have expired.
Under cross.examination by the
prosecutor, Kindermann admitted all
the details OF the FIRST meeting given
by Dittmar and also OF the further
connections with him. He persists
however, in the statement that he has
had nothing 10 do with the o. c. He
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international bourgeoisie and
those leaders Of the social
democracy who have brought
the proletariat under the regime
of Hindenburg.
Moscow, they shout when the
working class raises its head any
where to protest against the exploita-
tion and the Vaccinations of it's mas
ters.
Moscow, they shout when the sup
pressed peoples no longer wish to re-
main slaves.
Moscow that is for them the SYM
boil of everything which directs itself
against their rule, the rule of the ex-
ploiters and oppressors Of the toilers,
and therefore there is nothing which
they hate and caluminate so much as
Moscow.
See Moscow for Themselves.
"The representatives of our German
comrades will see Moscow for them
selves.
Their previous impressions have
certainly showed them how much Of
the campaign of lies which is pre-
scented to the workers in Germany as
a picture of conditions In Soviet Rus
sia, is true.
"They will already have seen what
the purpose of the warnings and
threats of the Vorwaerts was.
''The Vorwaerts hoped in the last
hour to prevent their departure. The
Russian workers have nothing to con-
ceal from their brother workers. 1t
is not necessary. They greet the rep
resentatives of the German working
class in their middle.
'"They hope that the journey will as
sist in spreading the truth about the
Soviet state, about the first workers
state in the world, to the last work.
ers' home in the other countries. The
Russian workers are proud that they
have been successfully surrounded by
a ring of enemies, in laying the first
stone of a new world order, that they
have been successful in building up
a new life without parasites and ex-
ploiters. They welcome their German
comrades. and fling wide the doors.
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dents organization has an internal
service with its quarters in Leipsig
and foreign service with its quart
ers in -Charlottenberg, Berliner
Strasse, 13.
The task of the internal service is
to carry on fascist agitation amongst
the students, to issue the necessary
pamphlets, films, etc, and TO provide
stipends for needy students, this lat
ter, however, only applies TO students
who are politically reliable" and
never to students who are merely
needy.
The economic departments of the
universities are most intimately con.
nected with the organization consul.
In 1928, the secret military training
OF the students through the reichs-
wehr by the agency Of the economic
service took place. There is Just as
close a connection between the tech
niche nothilfe fascist strikebreaking
organization) and the o. c., and the
responsible leaders Of the former are
always present at the discussions OF
the latter organization.
Qualities as Fascist.
Replying to the question of his de-
Tending counsel who asked him how
it came about that he, not being Of
pure German blood, was accepted in
the o. c., Dittmar pointed out that
his genealogical table showed the
purest of German blood and that fur
ther he was related to Freiherr Frei-
tag won Loringhoven, which was am
ply sufficient.
Wolscht declares that ne knows
nothing about the secret organization
and that he has not interested himself
in It; as a German student he is con-
yinced that 1t is purely Q welfare
4---<s<i se4i.sas.- y tls5rINs. ~ " 90 u -.
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became in the fight against the enc
mics outside (Cvetkov, the bureau.
cracy of the N. G. S., etc., the more
energetically 1t demanded the liquida-
ton of the remnants of the Cvetkov
ideology in our ranks, and the more
it demanded determined Bolshevist
policy in our party organizations for
the purpose of creating a Communist
influence in them, the more ruthless
did the majority become in its un-
heard of policy of brutal suppression
and systematic determination of the
minority. Not only was the minority
excluded from the most important
work in the federation, but they were
rapidly removed from the positions
they previously held and were re-
placed by incompetent comrades. At
the same time the majority started a
campaign thruout the federation to
discredit and kill politically the most
outstanding comrades of the minority
They did this by showing the work of
the minority in false light, by send
ing circulars to the branches denounc-
ing the comrades from the minority;
they were shown to the membership
as splitters, dsirupters and saboteurs.
In this respect the majority caused
great harm to the federation and the
party as a whole.
When the majority of the bureau
overstepped all bounds in its cam
paign of brutal suppression of the
minority, the latter was obliged to ap-
peal the matter to the Central Exc
cutive Committee of the party The c.
E. c. made several Attempts to create
unity, or at least soften down the
acuteness of the struggle in the fed
Grafton. The majority of the bureau
answered to this by more fierce cam
paign of suppression. The C. E. C..
finally intervened with a decision to
the effect that the minority must be
given every opportunity to work in
the federation. This decision of the
Central Executive Committee of the
party was sabotaged by the majority
of the bureau for three weeks, and
they finally decided not to carry out
the decision of the c. E. c., but to
evade it by asking for new investiga-
tions. The C. E. c. finally compelled
the majority of the bureau to respect
its decisions and to put them into ef-
feet. This was done in the form of
resolution, which was published in
the DAILY WORKER and in Radnik
I censuring at the same time the
bureau for spurning the authority OF
the c. +. G.
Our Relation to the Party Fractions
Inasmuch as the Central Executive
Committee of the party made attempts
to create unity and order in the South
Slavic Federation. the minority in the
party Novestone-R -Ruthenberg faction)
gave direct aid and support to the
majority of the bureau in violating
the discipline of the party and sabot
aging the decisions of the C. e. c. and
suppressing the minority. The MAORI.
ty of the bureau would not have dared
to sabotage the decision of the highest
body in our party were they not
backed and defended in this by the
minority of the party. Such an at
titude of comrades who occupy high
positions of leadership in the party
cannot be approved, but must be
emphatically condemned. Instead OF
urging the majority of the bureau to
respect the authority of the Central
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TN the South Slavic Federation of the
4 Workers Party a sharp factional
struggle has been going on for some
time. This struggle originated in the
fight against 'Gyetkov and 'Cvetkov-
ism, and in the differences in the
method of consolidating and upbuild-
ing the federation on firm Communist
foundations Two definite groups
we're formed in this fight--a minority
and majority.
The minority, led by Comrades
Fisher, Loyen and Mikalachky, always
stood for an aggressive fight against
Cvetkov as long as he was in the
party, and for a speedy liquidation of
the remnants of his ideology in our
movement after he left the party.
Had it not been for the persistent
and energetic fight against Cvetkov,
led by this group, today our federation
would be shattered and politically re-
duced to zero, while Cvetkov would
triumphantly rule over it, in the same
manner that Lore rules the German
federation.
The minority group also conducted
correct Bolshevik line of policy in
the fight against the whole Jugoslav
reaction in the United States, as well
as for the healthy growth and Com
munist consolidation of our move
ment
The present majority of the bureau
has always vascilated in the fight
against Cvetkov; its policies were in
decisive and confused. At the most
desperate moments in the fight against
Cvetkov, when the very life of the
federation was at stake, when firm
ness and decisiveness were required
the majority OF the bureau wavered
and gave in, while the whole burden
of the fight was thrown on the
shoulders of the minority, without
even having'the backing of the majori-
ty in this fight. The majority created
a philosophy that our federation can
be stabilized only If we take an at
titude OF conciliation toward Cvetkov,
what is more, we must acquisce to
their demands. while against the left,
that drove Cvetkov out of the party,
a merciless fight for determination
must be carried on.
This policy they began to put into
effect by uniting their forces with the
adherents of Cvetkov in the fight
against the Bolshevik left. In the fight
against the minority, the majority
catered to the sentiment of Cvetkov
ism in our federation. which they
modified, pressed into service, and in
this manner perpetuated it. Other
wise, Cvetkovism as an ideology and
political tendency in our federation
would have been liquidated a Ions
time ago. qG
The majority has also shown polit
ical weaknesses in other fields; espe
cially in the conflict between oui
movement and the bureaucracy of the
National Croatian Society, Nov
Svijet, etc. 1t did not put this fight
on broad political basis, with view
of separating the masses politically
from their fraudulent leaders, which
has always been the policy of the
minority, but reduced that fight tC
petty squabbles, which could in nc
way consolidate our movement and
draw the masses closer to it.
The more aggressive the minority
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They call to their German brothers,
tell our comrades abroad the whole
truth that you have seen here, for
this truth will carry the message and
hope Of a better future into those
countries where capitalism is still
dominant. The truth will be weapon
for the oppressed, the means for
awakening new strength in millions
of toilers. Your journey is a guaran-
tee that the united front of proletar-
ian solidarity in the struggle for the
common cause of all toilers is fasten-
ing an ever stronger band from
country to country"
Austrian Delegation stopped.
The Pravda prints, also in the Ger
man language, the following article:
Tomorrow we shall greet German
workers delegation in Moscow. And
the Swedish workers will follow the
Germans. The Austrian delegation
was prevented in its journey here by
the capitalist government.
Despite everything, sooner or later
this shameful blockade, this refusal
of elementary rights to the workers,
will be broken.
And stream Of fresh proletarian
masses will pour into the Soviet
Union. Already many foreign com
rades have visited us.
"The delegation which is at present
in our midst, represents the begin
ming of a new epoch in the develop
.ment of our international relations,
for these connections are not exhaust
ed in the establishment of official con-
nections with the capitalist states,
with their diplomacy and their rep
resentatives.
Beyond this there exists the inter-
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national connection thru International
solidarity, thru the bonds Of fraternal
and class interests. This connection
helped us continually to hold out in
the most terrible and strained fights
which did not cease for one moment
Now, however, we are commencing a
new phase of our life. 1t is no longer
a question of Immediately parrying
the blows of our enemies with a
sword reeking with our blood. It is
also no longer necessary to collect
coppers to assist the ranks OF four
heroic fighters decimated by hunger
and disease. This gloomy time is be-
hind us.
I'VE have become the masters of
our sufferings, we have won a free
road. Today the hammer blows Of
the proletariat sound joyfully in the
smithy of our economic reconstruc-
ton. Today those workers who doubt
our successes come to US from capital
ist countries and ever more will come,
They want to see the truth with their
own eyes. They want to be certain
about our economic situation. We
must show them everything. We
need have no shame for our home
less children, for our need and for our
wounds. 1t is not possible for us to
say that everything is better. That
would be self-deception.
Nevertheless our new friends must
realize that we have terrible years
behind us, that we have held out in a
tremendous struggle and that from the
moment in which we flung off the
last army of the bloody Intervention
and of the white bandits, we have
been continually growing. And truly,
in this connection there are laready
sufficient things to which we could
point and about which we could boast,
eyes of the proletarians who come to
us, and thru which we could earn the
handshake of comrades whose prole-
tartan pride and proletarian class
honor still remain. If we had been
left in peace by our enemies, if we had
had the opportunity of working for
years uninterruptedly, then our work
ing class, our toiling masses, would
certainly have produced wonders.
"Once again the mailed fist of cap
italism has been clenched, once again
the shouts of the bandits are sounding,
once again it seems that an iron ring
may close around our proletarian
country. The question of the organ
ization of proletarian defense against
the activities Of the millionaries who
control the earth, once again presents
itself to the working class.
"Who knows what will happen?
Have not English machine guns
already shot down Chinese workers
who had Joined the struggle for a
better existence and for freedom
Does not the Gallo cock already crow
hoarsely from the coast of Africa
Does not the world tremble today from
the tremendous tension of imperialist
contradictions which threaten to cause
| new world war, more powerful and
more destructive war than the first
imperialist war?
when the workers of Europe go
thru our factories and shops, thru our
recreation homes, our Soviet institu-
tions, and childrens homes, they
should be conscious that all they see
belongs to us and our common cause
and that it should be defended and
protected, for the world knows no
stronger power than our Soviet
Union!"
Getting a DAILY WORKER
sub or two will make a better
The daily worker., 1925-08-08
LEN|NGRAD BUILDING
WORKERS DEpUTAT|ONS
TO SWEDEN, GERMANY

MOSCOW, July 20. (6y MaiI.)-
The Leningrad building workers
union has decided to send deputa-
tion Of building workers to Sweden
and to Germany in order to study
the conditions of production and
labor and the life Of the working
class there.
The daily worker., 1925-08-08
SWEDISH WORKERS
VISIT THE WORKSHOPS
IN RED LENINGRAD

MOSCOW, July 20. (5y MaiI.)-
The Swedish workers delegation has
visited several Leningrad shops.
They divided themselves into groups
according to their occupations in
order to study the particular indus
try branches of interest to them in
Leninerad. Metal works, paper
works, printing works, railway
works, etc, were visited by the dele
cation, the women members of the
delegation visited ehldren's homes
and schools.
The delegation greeted the Lenin-
grad workers. On Sunday a session
Of the German and Swedish workers
delegation Is to take place. On the
21st Of July the Swedish delegation
is expected in Moscow
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GERMAN SOCIALIST organ failed
IN EFFORT TO HALT WORKERS
DELEGATION GOING TO RUSSIA

MOSCOW, July 1o.-(By Mall 1.-THE whole Moscow press
prints greetings the German language German workers
delegation which will An article in the zvesa
reads:
"Greetings German comrades!
The delegates of the German workers come
study the spot the
construction arrive tomorrow in the capital Union
in red Moscow
Moscow, this word embraces hatred of the