The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-26


Bidder, publishers of the German Ian
guage "Staats-zeitung" of New York
charged that Heinz Spanknoebel
leader of the Friends of New Ger.
many"-recently exposed in the Daily
Worker-was sent here by Hitler tc
influence the policy of the German
press in the U. S."
They were followed by Bernard
Deutsch, of the jewish American
Congress and q spokesman for the
Jewish War Veterans.
DR.. William Popcke, minister, In
charge of the Nazi celebration on the
20, denied that he knew Spanknoe-
bel, leader of the Nazis.
He caused considerable merriment
when, in answer to a question put
to him, he declared that he was
perfectly and entirely in the dark
regarding Spanknoebel's activities.
Charges that the Nazi storm troop
ers in New York had engaged in
"gangsterism at our meetings" were
made by formerly prominent leaders
Of the United German Societies.
"Mr. Mayor" Minor began, in a
voice which rang through the cham
Der, THE purpose Of the Nazis in the
United States is to establish a GER
tain system of organization here, The
organization they wish to establish as
talked Of in their own letter in plain
German is an organization for extra
legal violence which is easily COM
parable to the system of feline muir
ders' in Germany. The purpose of
this organization here is to establish
an anti-Semitic, and, still more i'm
portant because more substantial, an
anti-labor extra-legal system of vio-
lence. They wish to establish sys-
tenn which will not only peddle strike
breaking forces to employers, but also
as instigators Of race riots not only
Tor the murder of innocent Jews, but
also for the assassination of the lead
ers Of the labor movement, not the
harness, Of course, not the toothless
bureaucratS, but the revolutionary
leaders Of the labor movement"
Minor declared that "for the sake
OF the German people, it is necessary
not to permit these people (Nazis In
New York; to proceed in this man.
ner."
There Is before you perfect evil
dence in documentary form" contin-
ued Minor, "juStifying not alone the
refusal of the demands of these Ma
zis, but the immediate arrest of the
criminal Heinz SpanKnoebel and his
associates and their being held in
completely in the murder of innocent
Jews and of workers in Germany. 1t
is already documentarily shown that
they are connected directly with the
infamous frame-up in Berlin by
which innocent men are being rail-
roaded to not even the gallows, but
the headman's block with the bloody
axe that Hitler has reSsurrected from
the dark ages. These Nazis in the
U. S. are directly connected with the
frame-up in the Reichstag trial, with
the plan to murder innocent men for
the crime committed by Adolph Hit
Ter and by such men as Heinz Span
knoebel, Nazi leader, who came
to AiIferica at a date which very
interestingly corresponds with the
date on which the real Nazi incendia-
ries were fleeing from the scene of
the Reichstag fire.
Continuing, Minor said that at is
for the sake of the German people
suffering under the butcher Hitler
that we demand the sternest action
against them. speak for an organ
ization that is especially interested
because these instigators and organ
izers of murder have openly ex-
pressed their mission to include the
murder Of myself and other leaders