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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Pact Puts Austria
Under Italy's Wing
Anti-Nazi Agreement
Boosts Trieste

ROME, Aug. 25.-Details of the
anti-Nazi bloc of Italy, Austria and
Hungary were reported here last
night. They bring about close rela-
ton between Austria and Italy
which is annoying to France.
AS predicted in the Daily Worker
yesterday, the port of Trieste on the
Adriatic figures importantly in the
deal. In return for diverting to
Trieste the traffic hitherto sent
through Germany by Austria, Aus
tria get free zone there at NOM
inal rent, and is to build up a mer-
chant marine with headquarters at
this port.
Italy grants preferential tariffs
both to Austria and to Hungary, and
undertakes to purchase more goods
in those countries-manufactures in
Austria, and agricultural products in
Hungary.
This deal, which greatly increases
Italy's influence over Austria and
Hungary, strikes both at Germany
and Jugoslavia, whose exports to
Italy will be seriously affected.
AS part of the bargain, Chan
cellor Engelbert Dollfuss agrees to
resist Nazi influence by every means.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

is another class of people in this
country. They are well educated, as
smooth as cats in their social be-
havior. Those are the gentlemen
of yesterday. They have nothing to
lose, and everything to gain"
so he founded new league, which
he called the "Kulturbund. The
"Kulturbund" was to be for the
gentlemen, the "Bund der Freunde"
for the riff-raff. The "Kulturbund"
was supposed to be a mere auxiliary
Of the other. but Herr Spanknoevel's
secret idea was to make it dominate.
Nazis Hold Chicago Conference
Naturally there was lot of OPP
position to the "Kulturbund," and
Herr Paulson was particularly angry
at the usurpation. Soon afterward
the heads of all the Nazi groups in
America held congress in Chicago.
Herr Spanknoevel presided, seconded
by Herr A. Mentzing, assistant
director of the North German Lloyd.
There was a good deal of opposi-
ticl to Spanknoevel, but he cracked
the whip and reminded his critics
that Dachau was waiting for un-
disciplined Nazis, and he got vote
Of confidence.
ITO b. continued)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Former New York Naz Gives Inside Story Of Naz Organization in IT, S.

Ter came to power. Their following
was pretty small, and the most they
ever got together was 300. members.
Even among these there was no dis
cipline. There was violent onnosi-
lion, especially to Meyer, and con-
slant quarrels in the organization.
Both were always suspected of be-
ing TOO ambitious, and their follow
ers refused to be whipped into dis
1t was great relief to both when
soon after he came into power. Hit
Ter ordered the American Nazis or
ganization to dissolve.
Manager took the next boat and
went to Berlin, hoping to get a big
job.
U, s. Nazis Reorganize
Hitler's order to dissolve the Amer
lean Nazis turned out to be CAM
outage. AS soon as Maneer had
left, Paul Paulson, one of his lieu
tenants, was entrusted with the lob
OF recognizing them under a new
name. The organization thereafter
became known as the "Bund der
Freunde DIES neuen Deutschland
Oeague Of the Friends of New Ger
many. Membership was made open
10 americans as well as to Germans.
SO long as they were "Aryans." But
these non-German members have no
voting power. All they are allowed
10 DO is to listen, carry out orders,
and to pay and pay. The nom
Germans were admitted in the hope
that they would enable the organi-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Ambitious .Emigres Set Up Two Groups, One
for Gentlemen, Other for "Riff-Raff' Storm
Troops Drill in N. Y. c., Aping German Bros.

in Germany, or an OK from Hitler
for Job here.
One Of these is Kurt Spanknoevel,
man about 40 years old who went
through the war as a private. He
had been the leader of the Detroit
group, until it was dissolved. He
quickly grew over the heads of his
companions, and became by order of
Hitler the leader OF all the Storm
Troops and Hitler societies in this
country.
He soon got q commission from
Hitler in Berlin. and returned in
triumph to present 1t to the other
Eazis here But he had always had
q good deal of opposition from am
bilious rivals, and his Nazi commits
sion made this opposition all the
sharper.
"Kulturbund' For Gentlemen
His return from Germany was no
triumph. Instead. he found himself
faced with the first real mutiny of
the Ne2is in this country. They
threatened not to recognize his COM
nlirsion.
But Herr Spanknoevel knows where
his potatoes grow. What good is
the Bund to me anyway? he thought.
They are all poor and uneducated,
and without any influence. But there
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
FaSciSts Prescribe
8 Noted Germans

BERLIN, Aug. 25.-Thirty- three of
Germany's leading Communists, lib
erals, and Social-Democrats were de-
prived of citizenship and property
today by order of Wilhelm Frick,
Nazi minister of the interior.
Among the Communists on the
list are Willie Muenzenberg, inter-
national chairman of the Workers
International Relief; Max Hoelz
leader of the 1923 uprising in Thu
ringia; Heinz Neumann and Wilhelm
PECK, leading Communist deputies
in the Reichstag, and Ruth Fischer,
leading German Communist woman.
Heinrich Mann, Lion Feucht-
wanger, Ernst Toller, Gerhard Bern
hard and Alfred Kerr, writer's; Philip
Scheidemann, Otto Wells, Friedrich
Stampfer, Albert Gieszinski and Bern
hard Weiss. Social Democrats; Will
helm Forester, Emil Gumbel and
Helmut Won Gerlach, pacifists, are
on the list.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

cation to exercise political influence
In America.
Under Hitler's Orders
Officially, the "Bund" has no con-
nection with Hitler, but the leader
ship is altogether in the hands of
members of the German Nazi party,
who dare not make step without
the knowledge of the parent party.
Whatever they do must be approved
and criticized by Hitler and his or
ganization. they are charged with
full responsibility, and are under
strict discipline. The prison-camp
at Dachau is reserved for any dis
obsdient Nazi, even though he is in
America.
Paul Paulsen is rather shy man.
but consumed with an immense am
bition. He started in ene.geticaly,
helped by en- agitator from Germany
named Karl Wiessnd
They felt the need of a newspaper.
and approached the New York
"Staatszeitung," but found the editor
reluctant, since so many Of his ad-
vertisers are Jews. So they founded
a paper of their own, the "Beobach-
ter" which appears about once every
two weeks, and Is full of sarcastic
criticism of everything which Is not
Nazi. Iie was helped in printing it
by man named Eugene Heiss.
Spanlnoevei Gets Hitler OK.
When Manager left for Europe,
many other Nazis went with him,
all hoping either to get good Job
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Zionists Back Down
on German Boycott

PRAGUE, Aug. rs. Zionists,
meeting here in a world congress,
backed down before a threat by
DR.. Alfred Rosenberg, Hitler's
private Foreign Minister" and
voted down by large majority a
proposal to support the boycott of
Germany.
The congress contented itself
with meaningless, mild rebuke
to the Nazis. Rosenberg had pub
lished in the Voelkische Boebachter,
Nazi newspaper of Berlin, that the
results of the Congress would not
affect negotiations under way for
permission to German Jews to
emigrate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

-four hour day put into effect by
Superintendent Jensen of the Coun-
ty Welfare Bureau. Picketing COM
mittees out all morning at the diff
ferent projects reported from so to
80 per cen walkouts.
Earlier in the morning large dele
cations elected from the % locals
of the Relief Workers Protective
Union presented their demands to
the Board of Supervisors, CITY
Council and the "ne wdeal" Mayor
Shaw. Joe Graham, reporting at the
demonstration on the meeting with
the Board of Supervisors, stated
that John R. Quinn, chairman of he
board, said that all work orders and
direct relief will soon be cut off and
the 100000 men, women and chill
dren will be fed in soup kitchens. He
further told the delegation that the
starving workers will have to be sat
isfied with what they are Getting
until the wheels of industry start
turning"
AS rirect result of the numer-
GUS mass meetings and protests mi.
tiated by the R. P. W. u, Superin-
tendent Jensen announced this
morning before the strike that a
six-hour day at $2.40 per day will
go into effect tomorrow morning.
This means that workers have won
back 5 per cent of the 80 per cent
cut in relief. He also announced
that unemployed workers who have
been getting direct and work relief
will be cut off after 80 days until a
thorough investigation" is made of
their cases, which means that after
80 days great many starving
workers will be dropped from the
relief lists.
Ten unemployed workers who
picketed at the county projects were
arrested this morning. One worker I
was badly beaten up by bunch of
Legion thugs guarding the tavern,
where thousands of homeless men
are forced to slave on the river bed
for their meals.
Among the demands presented to
the mayor were: 81 for 6-hour
day; minimum of 7 days work a
month for single men and women;
minimum of 10 days work month
for married plus 2 extra days each
month for each dependent; 2s per
cent added to all pay to cover sales
tax; free transportation to and
from jobs where cost is greater than
A cents for street car fare; imme-
date abolition of all forced labor
on river beds for single men; Off
cial recognition of the Relief Work
ers Protective Union, with at least
two members of their own selection
as full time members on the county
welfare board; full pay for strikers, I
with no discrimination on account
of race, creed, nationality or for
strike activity.
Resolutions for the freedom of
Tom Mooney, Warren X. Billings,
the Scottsboro boys, Chase, and for
the freedom of Ben Boots, who is
serving year sentence for turning
on the gas and water in an unem-
ployed workers home in San Diego,
were all passed with thunderoU-s
applause. A resolution of protest
was sent to the Governor of Ala
bama against the lynchings of the
two Negroes in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
j. S. Socialists Call
NRA Guard Against
American Fascism
WorldSP Confab Plans
Maneuvers Against
United Front

PARIS, Aug. 25.-"America need
not fear Fascism," Judge Jacob
Panken of New York, one of the
American delegation to the world
congress of the Socialist Interna-
tional here, declared yesterday.
"Our democratic traditions and
the intelligence of our people are
sufficient guarantees against Fas-
cism," he said, declaring against the
only kind of struggle the Socialists
still have the agenda.
The workers have much to hope
from the NRA, he told the congress,
adding that the strike of $4,000
dress workers in New York "could
not have been solved without the
NRA.
Other members of the American
delegation disagree with him on the
Interpretation of the significance of
the NRA, although both factions
told their European colleagues that
they saw much good in it.
Professor Maynard Kruger of
Chicago disagreed with Panken about
the development of Fascism in Am
erica, but declared that the workers
could use the NRA as a weapon
against it. eff labor fails to rise to
its opportunity, Fascism will be the
next STEP" he said.
The congress will close today,
after making a decision on a re-
solution to invite the Communist In
ternational for conference on the
united front. The speakers made
clear that the kind of united front
they will propose is on the basis of
sabotage of all struggle, as exempli-
fled by the Socialist approval of the
NRA. Some of the delegates, in
GLIDING Panken, are however afraid
even of this maneuver, fearing it will
not deceive their followers, among
whom there is a powerful demand
for a genuine Joint struggle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Anti-FasciSt Group
Calls for Evidence
for Torgler Trial
Germans With Infor-
nation Asked to Send
It to Committee

NEW YORK.-The International
Relief Committee for Victims of
Hitler Fascism has asked all affi-
lated committees in all countries to
issue call for defense witnesses for
Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and
Taneff.
Although many affidavits have al
ready been deposited with the Inter
national Committee exposing the
frameup of the comrades accused of
burning the Reichstag, every refugee
in European or American countries
who may have information to give
is requested to respond.
German speaking workers and
sympathizers in this country, who as
a result of correspondence with their
relatives or friends in Germany,
have come into possession of in
formation which will aid the Peo-
pies Court, to meet at the time the
trial occurs in Leipzig in September,
and which will expose this frame
up, are requested to communicate
with the National Committee to Aid
Victims of German Fascism, rs Fifth
Ave, New York.
"a gigantic wave of resolutions
must go forward demanding ade-
quate defense for Torgler," said
Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of
the Committee.
THE German consulates in all
cities should be visited in the next
weeks by hundreds of committees
from workers organizations and
meetings. Protest meetings must
multiply in number in the neighbor-
hoods of all cities"
Funds Inadequate
Funds for defense and relief are
still far from adequate, although
recently contributions have increased
proving a growing movement. A
protest meeting in Croton, N. Y.
contributed 5000; Jewish Ladies Aid,
Duluth, $40; New York United
Front Committee $3.50; Toms River,
Conn, $35; Milwaukee S11.5O; Den
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

220.46 pounds; hectare is 2.47 acres.)
When one stands near endless COL
lective farms, fields of barley, winter
wheat" a letter from the Ukraine
runs, zone admires their cleanliness,
their height, the full weight ears, the
good quality, the large grain
The villages received great as
sistance from the proletarian state
for the harvest. Instead of 2o3
combines which worked collective
fields in the Ukraine in 1892, now
1903 combines worked there. The
state farms received $50 new COM
bines. The number of reaping ma
chimes, sheaf-binders, threshing ma
chimes and other machines has been
greatly increased.
Never was the collective farms vii
lage SO enthusiastic as now. The
collective farm has become for the
peasant indeed something dear and
intimate. The great majority of the
peasants are already accustomed to
solve all questions of their life and
welfare through the life and work on
the collective farm.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

enlnS OF the collective farms, the
enthusiasm of the collective farms
resulted in colossal improvement
in the quality of the agricultural
works.
Sowing All Mechanical.
For instance, spring sowing this
year was done for the first time en-
tlrely by sowing machines. Wedding
was done on great scale embracing
an enormous territory of over six
million hectares. Before, it wasn't
done at all in the Ukraine. AS a re-
suit of such intensive collective work,
the Ukraine this year has the great
est crop in 80 years.
Since 1900, the average harvest for
all cereals produced in the Ukraine
was greatest in 1880 when one nectar
yielded 10 and half centners. The
average harvest this year for all GER
eals reached II centners from one
hectare and for wheat, the most i'm
portant cereal of the Ukraine. 10
centnerS. The Ukraine has not had
such harvest since 1902. AS for
barley, the harvest this year sur
passes by more than two centners Der
hectare, any figure of the last 30
years. In some collective farms and
state farms, the harvest of wheat
ana barley reached even 35 centners
from one hectare. "a centner weighs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
JObIess Teachers
Urge Nationwide
Meet to Draw Code

NEW YORK. = Answering the
public school teachers code pre-
scented to MIRA by the American
Federation of Teachers, the Unem-
ployed Teachers Association urged,
the Federation to call nationwide N
conference to formulate an adequat.
code. vi
The code was drawn up for teach
ers all over the country and was not
made public until after it had been
presented to MIRA. According to
the Unemployed Teachers Associa-
ton, serious omission in the A. F.
T. code is that it makes no provision
for immediate relief for the esti-
mated 100000 unemployed teachers
throughout the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Japan in Threat to
Rivals in China Asks
Anti-SOviet Front.
Cracks Whip AS Soong
Comes from Seeing
Roosevelt

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-The New
York Times today published an
open threat addressed by the Jap
anese minister to China, Akira Arr
yoski, to T. V. Soong, Chinese FL
nance Minister.
Soong is on his way back to
China after a four-months trip in
which he conferred with the govern
ments of the United States, Great
Britain, Germany, France and Italy,
and arranged for the $50,000,00O
Reconstruction Finance wheat and
cotton loan to China.
Fearing that Soong is returning
with assurances of support by Jap
ans imperialist rivals in China for
an anti-Japanese stand by the Chi
nese government, Ariyoski has made
a statement which is an open at
tempt at intimidation, without even
the sugar-coating of diplomatic Ian,
guage.
Ariyoksi's threatening statement
centers around the Japanese prep
arations for war on the Soviet
Union. tie says: The indications
are that Mr.. Soong fully grasped the
nature of the problems that are
really absorbing western leaders.
Probably he perceived the impera-
tive need of tackling various prob
lens and of bravely facing the facts
as they exist, envisaging them from
the broader range of view"
Chang Kai-shek, Chinese die
'tator, Wang Ching-wei, premier,
and Hwang Flu, administrator of the
Peiping-Tientsin area, have been
openly assisting Japan in China, and
receiving praise by Japanese off
Gals.
Soong, who arrives in Yokohama
today, has cancelled arrangements
made by the Chinese Legation for
informal discussions with japanese
leaders while his ship is in harbor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Four Year Old American Organization Jumps
When Hitler Cracks the Whip -Quarrelsome
Nazis Spread Hitler Poison Here

Editors Note-The following ac-
count of the four years activities
OF the Nazi organizations in Amer
lea is written by a former Nazi
who was closely identified with the
organization until very recently.
He might still be a leading men,
Der of Hitler's American henchmen
but for the fact that it was dis
covered in Germany that there was
some Jewish blood in his famiIy's
ancestry. His relatives In Germany
were prosecuted by the Nazis this
summer, completing his disilIusion.
In this article he gives a short
history Of the Nazi movement in
New York. In the next article,
the names, personalities, and his
tories of the leaders of the Nazis
here will be given.
(By a Former NazD
1t was in 1929, about the time of
the stock market crash, that a num-
Der OF German societies and indiyi-
duals In America began to think seri-
ously about Adolf Hitler's movement.
he had some enthusiastic followers
even earlier, but at this time sew
eral German societies and clubs in
different parts Of the country decided
to accept Hitlefs "a points, and to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Old Age Pension Law
Doesn't Apply to the
Colorado Inhabitants

PUEBLO, CaI.-When the Col
orado State Legislature finally did
pass an old age pension law, it
contained the catch provision that
the applicant must have been
born in the state IS years ago. And
when they examined 500 applicants
they discovered that IS years ago,
in 1868, there were only a hand
full of people in the entire Rocky
Mountain district.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
"I'm the Law Smith"
Still Spluttering in
Bell County, Ky.

PINEVILLE, KY. = Walter B.
Smith, Sheriff of Bell County, who
told students investigating the strik-
ing miners last year that he is the
law, is still getting red in the face
talking about the "reds."
His latest "red batting" act was
staged at gathering of $50 unem-
ployed workers in the Pineville
Court House. He warned the audi
ence that he did not want any red
speeches made anywhere in the
county.
81 am the Law Smiths" one man
act Topped in silence.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Reds Spread Anti-War
Leaflets at Japanese
Army Drill; Is jailed

TOXIC, Aug. 25.-Hundreds of
anti-war leaflets were distributed
by japanese Communists during
the army maneuvers which were
held In conjunction with the great
fleet maneuvers which came to an
end today with review by EN-
peror Hirohito of the gigantic bat
tie fleet of Yokohama.
Toxic police announced that Is
Communists had been arrested
while distributing leaflets
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Irish Fascist Meet
Is Halted by the Police

DUBLIN, Aug. 25.-Two hun
bred Civil Guards prevented Owen
O'Duffy, leader of the Irish Fas-
cists, from addressing a meeting
at Waterford Town Hall last night.
He accepted the ban gracefully,
and worked with the deValera DO
lice to disperse the crowd.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Reservation Indians
Being Organized to
Fight Relief Graft

EVERETT, Wash.-Thousands Of
dollars are appropriated yearly fol'
the Indian Reservation Relief, vel
the only money the Indians get ia
what they earn on the Tulalip Re-
scryat,on. They have to cut pulp
weed from daylight to dark to make
Toe a day OF which family of four
to ten people must live.
The Indians are being organized to
fight for relief just as the whita
workers are fighting for 1t.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Ecuador Legalizes
Communist Party

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Aug. 25.
"A resolution restoring freedom of
speech to Communists has been
adopted by Congress, with only six
dissenting votes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

yer, $12.15; Westport, Conn. $40:
st. Louis $50. A letter is at hand
announcing contributions which will
total around $500 in Los Angeles
chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and
other large cities are still to be
heard from. Remittances are being
received daily from the branches Of
the international Workers Order.
the Russian Mutual Aid and the
Arbeiter Kranken und Sterile Kasse
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
Ukraine CoUectives Have
Best Harvest in 80 Years
Villages Never So Enthusiastic All Sowing Is
Mechanical, All Work Greatly Improved

MOSCOW UssR Aug rs By CabThe newspapers publish
interesting data agriculture the
of the harvesting in the Ukraine this
increased comparison with last
The spring sowing economic strength
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26

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1900 STRIKE | DAY in
Los ANGELES AGAINST 80
PC. CUT In RELIEF WORK
Strike Preparations Force Relief Head to
Withdraw Is Per Cent of Cut
All Aid to Be Cut After 80 Days Pending
Thorough Investigation"

Los ANGELES August 25Seveneen
employed led by the Relief Workers
afternoon the Plaza
Board Supervisors
the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
STRONG LEFT WING GROUP.
AT READING CONGRESS OF.
YOUNG SOCIALIST LEAGUE
Young Communists Greet Program of Insur-
gent Socialists, But Warn Against Too Much
Hope From Official Leadership

Thursdays DAILY" statement issued
wing statement brought in by member
following YCI,
pointing future path-Edk
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-26
BY JOHN SMITH.

sympathy
at the with the