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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
The NeaV York Shoe Strike

FOR fourteen weeks several thousand shoe strikers
have Waged q militant struggle for better COZ i-
lions and for the right to join union of their own
choice against the combined forces of the open shop
shoe manufacturers and the NRA
At the peak of the general strike nearly $4,000
snoe workers were involved and the overwhelming
majority OF the shoe workers in the Greater New
York shoe center lined up solidly behind the
rank and fle-controlled Shoe and Leather Workers
Industrial Union.
1t is to the credit of the loyal devoted Communist
and militant leadership of the Industrial Union that
thousands of shoe workers varying political afla-
tons and beliefs solidly welded together in a
burning desire to build and maintain their union
Every attack by Grover Whalen of the NRA and
the shoe bosses forged these bonds more firmly Rec
ognltlon OF the union-the only guarantee for the
maintenance OF improved conditions-became the CEN
trail issue of the strike.
From the days when Grover Whalen issued his
antisrike edct aimed specifically at the shoe strike
the tactics Of the MIRA have been to attempt de-
morazaton in the strikers ranks in oroer to smash
the industrial Union and deliver the workers over
TO the Boot and Shoe union of the A. F. of L.
When Whalens strikebreaking strategy failed when
the red scare nunctons terror, arrests and frame
ups and the brazen attempt to company unonize the
INDUSTRY by open recognition Of the paper F. of L.
Boot and Shoe Union, when the whole stock in trade
failed to shake the strikers ranks but instead re-
suited in determined mass actions the National
Labor Board entered the situation. The Board tried
similar methods. But, even william Green's strike
breaking offer Was sharply rejected by a delegation
of strikers
The Boards decision offers a number of conces-
sions which have been wrung from the NRA by the
shoe strikers determined struggle But behind these
concessions the iron fist of the NRA clearly seen
The essence of the Labor Boards decision Is the
intention to smash the Industrial Union. In this 1t
differs in no way from the series of strkebreaking
decisions made In the struggles of the coal miners
the textile workers and in many other strikes.
Its proposal to send the workers back to work with
out recognition of the Industrial Union despite all
proofs that the overwhelming majority of the shoe
workers of New York City willing to fight to
finish for the Industrial Union and to substitute cleo
tions two months hence has for its main purpose
the breaking down Of the workers solidarity. It is
attempt to terrorize them and to force them when
election time comes, to vote for the bosses union. 1t
rs a brazen trick already practiced in the Reading
hosiery workers struggle. This is further borne out
by the inclusion of the clause declaring that no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
Hitler Fascsn Instgator War; Champion of World Reaction

the delivery and transport OF nuni-
tons!
Increase tenfold the already power
full wave of solidarity with the heroic
anti-fascists of Hitler Germany and
their Party-the Communist Party of
Germany, which alone is fighting for
social and national emancipation -
for a Soviet Germany. Collect funds
and continue agitation for the in
ternational fighting fund in support
of anti-fascist activity. So
No trade union meeting, no meet
ing of any workers cultural or sport
organization should be allowed. to
pass without the adoption Of protest
resolutions against Hitler's plan to
murder our comrades Dimitroff, Tor
gler, Popoff, and Taneff. Raise your
and all other political prisoners. The
examples Of protest actions against
German Consulates have had pro-
found effect-they must not cease, but
must be continued. France, Holland
and Czechoslovakia report examples
of heroic protest strikes of factory
workers against Hitler fascisin. These
individual examples should be fol-
lowed by the factory workers Of the
whole world. t
The increased. activity against fas-
cism and the menace of war leads to
conflicts with the employers and gov-N
eminent in ones own country. The
capitalist class advocates an incite-
ment Of nationalist passions, but does
not desire actions of the working and
middle class against the fascists, for
this robs them of their profits. There
fore do not let yourself be deceived
by the passive, paralyzing boycott
slogan of the, refornist leaders which
merely helps the bourgeoisic In their
own countries.
Intensity the struggle to win the
proletarian youth for the revolution.
airy battle. With your active strug-
gle against your own bourgeoisie in
your own country help to free the
young workers from the claws Of the
social fascists, fascists and bourgeois
organizations, and to rally them UNI
der the banner unfolded by Karl
Liebknecht, Rosa Luxembourg, and
Lenin. March in millions in every
country in the world against the war
mongering Hitler fascisn, for the
German proletarian revolution, for
the defense and protection Of the
Soviet Union and Soviet China. Raise
high the banner of the proletarian
International Workers Of the world,
unite So -. =
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ed. (Oberfahren was a member of
the Nazi party who published state
ment proving that Goering, Heines
and other Nazi leaders set fire to the
Reichstag. Following the publication
OF his memorandum, the Nazis COM
PEELED Oberfahren to kill himself
Editor.
Goebbels said he would not dream
of replying to the charges contained
in the Brown Book Of the Hitler
Terror if it were not for the fact
that many people abroad believed
these charges. But his sole reply to
the Brown Book charges that the
Reichstag fire was his idea was that
he had better propaganda ideas.
Goebbels admitted that the Com
munist Party rejected the terror as
a political weapon, but said that this
rejection was only on the surface.
In reality, he said, the Communist
Party follows the slogan-strike the
fascists everywherel
Walters of the Bayerhof, where q
spy testified ne saw Van der Lubbe
with Dimitroff and Popof, all testi-
fed that Van der Lubbe had never
visited that restaurant. Only two
walters testified that possibly Popoff
had visited that restaurant in 1882.
The unaninity of the walters in re-
fusing the testimony by the spy
waiter Hellmer against the defend
ants created q deep impression, de-
stroying the remnants of the chain
of circumstantial evidence" intended
to prove Van der Lubbe's connections
with the Bulgarians.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
From the International Bureau or
Struggle Against Imperialist War
and Fascism--Paris

and taScISm--Par1S
THE disruption of the "Disarma-
L ment Conference" by Hitler faS-
scists, Germany's withdrawal from
the League of Nations and the
Reichstag elections as a nationalist
"plebiscite," create so serious an ag-
gravation of the International situa-
ton that the proletariat of the en-
tire world must at once commence
increased activity in its struggle
against the threatening imperialist
ornaments of the belligerent impe-
rialists for war against the Soviet
| Union. ...,
Hitler's policy Of provocation and
| incendiarism in the field of foreign
policy is an endeavor to divert the
German people from the insoluble
and continually increasing domestic
difficulties. He is at the same time
endeavoring to seize the role of the
champion of international finance
capital against Bolshevism.
The inner difficulties within fas-
cist Germany are growing worse from
day to day owing to the heroic strug-
gle of the revolutionary anti-fascists
and of their party, the Communist
Party of Germany. The revolution
airy crisis is approaching. The revo-
lutionary united front Is growing and
with its growth In ever increasing
tempo there approach all the condi-
lions for the victorious proletarian
German revolution.
The domestic difficulties in fas-
cist Germany are as follows: rapid
intensification of the economic cri-
sis, collapse of foreign trade, col
lapse of the program of work crea-
ton, the beginning OF Initiation, and
special aggravation OF the agricul-
tural crisis. The middle classes in
town and country are seized with
profound disappointment.
But particular and. decisive i'm
portance attaches to the ever wild
ening wave of resistance, strikes and
demonstrations of the factory work
ers. The resolute and strengthening
resistance Of the factory workers
against any attack Of their labor con-
ditions and the active united front in
almost all trade unions against the
Nazi auxiliaries make this more and
more strongly felt. The discrediting
and disintegration OF the National
Socialist factory organizations are
continuing. The opposition in the
storm troops themselves Is growing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
World Anti-War
Meets to Be Held
on Armistice Day
NY. Will Demonstrate
Saturday Noon in
Columbus Circle

NEW YORK. A mass dernonstras
ton against war and fascism win
mark Armistice Day, November II,
when representatives of various work
ers' and youth organizations will meet
at noon in Columbus Circle
The demonstration in New York
will be one of thousands of demon
STATIONS in cities throughout the
world, which are being organized this
week at the call of the World Com
nlittee Against War and Fascisin.
Among the organizations which will
participate in the united front DEM
stration next Saturday at noon in
Columbus Circle, are the National
Student League, the Youth Commits
tee of the Trade Union Unity Coun-
Gil, the East Side Current Events
Club, the WIR., the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League, the Irish workers
Club and the Committee to Aid
the Victims OF German Fascisn1.
A curt refusal to participate in this
demonstration against war and Fas-
cism, which is on wide united front
basis, was made by the Young Peo-
pies Socialist League.
Following this refusal, the youth
committee of the League Against War
and FasciSm issued statement urg-
ing all rank and file members of the
Young Peoples Socialist League to
join the united struggle against wal
and Fascism by coming to Column
bus Circle Nov. IL, at noon.
let the young rank and file So
cialists come with their own banners
and slogans, and march in solid
united front with their fellow work
ers and Students" the statement de-
clareS.
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Mass Protests Are
Planned to Save the
Trial Defendants
Continued from Page u

the trial is over the Nazi government
will finish him and his comrades.
In the face of the Nazi's determine
ton to murder these men, we must
bring the fight for their lives to a
successful conclusion immediately
before it is too late. This requires
funds, and we plan to appeal to all
working class organizations, as well
as to liberals, to pitch in with all their
might into this struggle of world
wide significance.
The appeal being sent out by the
Committee to Aid the Victims of Ger
man Fascism ends with the slogans:
Protest Against the Frame-Up Trial
in Berlin! Save Dimitroff, Torgler,
Popoff, and Taneff from the Axe of
Hitler's Executioners! Make the Voice
of the American Masses Heard in De-
tense of the Heroic Fighters of the
Working Glass;"
The Committee to Aid the Victims
of German Fascisrn Is sending ap-
pealS for cooperation in the na-
tion-wide defense campaign to A. F.
Of L. locals, Socialist Party branches
Communist Party districts, the Con-
ference of Progressive Labor Action
the Arbeiter Kranken und Sterile
Kasse, and other German organiza-
tons, the Trade Union Unity League
the American League Against War and
Fascism, the International Workers
Order and similar fraternal organiza-
tons, Jewish organizations of vari-
Gus kinds, the Pen and Hammer. the
John Reed Club, the League Of Pro-
fesSional Groups and other organiza-
tons of intellectuaIs.
Organizations and individuals
wishing to participate in the mass
drive for the liberation of the Reichs-
tag defendants may do so by COM
municating with the Committee to
Aid the Victims of German Fascism
$40 Broadway, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
Whipping Up National Hates Using Terror and ckery Hitler
Seeks to Make November H. referendum
Mandate for War

tire liberties for their minorities and
for the failing of the armament sys-
tenn of the greatest powers in the
world.
All parties are therefore compelled
to take q clear position on the ma
tional question and on the question
Of defense of ones country. The
Second International, and with it the
Socialist leaders, at their last con-
gress reaffirmed their support of de
Tense" of ones country for the de-
Tense of democracy" which is
nothing but the dictatorship of the
bourgeoisie. The Socialist Parties will
again play their role as the chief So
cial pillar of the capitalist class in
all countries, going as far as open
chauvinism. Just as in 1914, it will
intensity its social fascist policy of
splitting the working class and pre-
venting and bloodily spupressing
strikes and the proletarian united
front, all in the name of defense" of
ones country. Here arises the great
task of the revolutionary interna-
tional proletariat. 1t must win its
brothers, the Socialist workers and
the proletarian youth, for the. revo-
lutionary united front of struggle
against imperialist war, against de-
tense Of ones country and in support
of the struggle for the proletarian
revolution in Germany. 1t Is the
task of every single anti-fascist to
rally the majority of the working
class under the banner of proletarian
internationalism, to organize the revo-
lutionary united front in every coun-
try against ones own capitalist class,
to interest millions Of toilers In the
revolutionary front, and to release
them from the claws of social fas-
cism and national chauvinism.
Workers of the world, organize a
revolutionary united front for anti
fascist action in factory, town and
countryl Intensity the struggle
against imperialist militarization in
any form whatsoever Disclose ar
nament production throughout the
world Reveal the imperialist ar
mament race in all capitalist coun-
tries! Redouble activity in the wal
factories, and close your ranks in the
struggle for wage increesesl Prevent
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09

The great demagogic trick of the
new Reichstag election, which in the
form of a "plebiscite" referring only
to the question of Germany's resigna-
ton from the League of Nations is
intended to confirm all of Hitler's
domestic policies, has been staged to
create this national Indictment and
repress all social struggles.
BY means Of terror election Hit
Ter wants to insure himself mass
following in order to extort the right
of independent declarations of war,
especially against the Soviet Union.
Furthermore, the whipping up of
national passion is intended to pro-
vide him with new opportunities to
physically destroy the political and
revolutionary vanguard of the fight
ing working class by means of still
madden mass murder. A new orgy
of blood is being released In Germany.
Hitler As Whip of World Reaction
Thus Hitler also appears interna-
tionally as the most brutal prepayment
of the interests of finance capital.
At the same time his policy of force
fulfills the warmest desires of arm
ament capital, of heavy industry in
all capitalist countries, which are us
ing his provocative acts to force their
own possibly vacillating governments
as well as the entire frightened middle
classes into the armament race.
This Indictment of national pas
sions will at the same time produce
further swing towards the right
in governmental policy and q more
rapid move towards fascism in all
the capitalist countries of the world.
The consequences, for the masses. OF
this reactionary turn in all capitalist
countries will be an increased bur-
den through taxes for competitive
ornaments, further wage and salary
cuts, together with more intense
measures of suppression. Thus Hit
Ter becomes champion OF world re-
action In every field.
Accumulation Of Imperialist
Antagonisms
At the sane time the imperialist
antagonisrns between the world pow
ers are growing rapidly. The League
Of Nations appears even more openly
as the naked instrument of the old
entents for the suppression of en-
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/ graduated murderers" Dimitroff
asked
GoebbeIs replied that he under
stood Dimitroff's allusion to the Po-
tempa case in which storm-troopers
who had killed a Polish worker were
condemned to death. But, Goebbels
continued, Nazi leaders understood
that these storm troopers believed
they had performed service to the
Nazi cause, therefore the Nazi lead
ers' supporters, and many acts of
| violence were amneStied.
It was significant, .hoWever. that
Goebbels did not venture to defend
fully Hitler's congratulatory telegram
to the six storm troopers in the Po-
tempa case who murdered a defense
less worker in the presence of his
mother, by shots, daggers, ana kicks
and were condemned to death by o
court while Won Papen was Chancel-
lor
When Dimitroff asked GoebbelS
about the murder of Liebknecht and
Luxembourg, the presiding judge in
terrupted him, asking what connec-
ton that question had to do with
arson.
Irritated by Dimitroffs telling qUes-
tions, Goebbels snapped out that he
is accustomed to debate with very
different persons from petty Com
muniSt agitators. This infant1le re-
mark was an attempt TO weaken the
impression made by Dimitroff's great
personality. 1t was the profound I'M
preston made by this heroic Com
munist which compelled the Nazis
to trot out their "aces"-Goering and
Goebbels, but in doing so they only
exposed their inferiority.
GoebbelS contradicted himself lu-
dicrously in debate with Torgler.
First Goebbels claimed that the Com
munist Party instigated the fire be-
cause it underestimate the strength
of the government. But when Torg-
Ter said that the Communist Party
was well aware of the governments
strength, supported by the police and
the Stahlhelm, Goebbels Immediately
reversed himself, and asserted that
the Communist Party instigated the
fire as an act of desperation because
it realized the strength of the gov
eminent.
In reply to severe attacks by Torg-
led and DiInitroff for the brutal mis-
treatment of workers by the storm
troopers, Goebbels merely said that
the storm troops have expelled all
those guilty of excuses"
In reply to Dimitroff's question
whether Nazis during the struggle for
power used weapons in self-defense
against alleged attacks, Goebbels as
serted that Nazis were told to Gerry
no weapons despite armed attacks by
the Communists. Only Nazis occu-
plying red headquarters, he said, were
forced to carry arms, otherwise 1T
would be suicide.
Have the thousands Of Commu-
nists and Social Democrats whose
lives are threatened today no right
of self defense?" Dinlitroff asked.
Goebbels evaded the question by
saying that there must be distinc-
ton between the aggressor and the
defender. ..
Goebbels began his testimony by
saying that he was in Berlin on the
night of the fire, but that his pres
ence in the capital was purely acci-
dental"
Goebbels asserted that the Ober-
fahren memorandum appeared after
Oberfahrens death. In reality the
Oberfahren memorandum was pub
lished in the British bourgeois press
long before Oberfahren was murder
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to the extent of open rebellion. In
addition there are strikes and re-
volts Of the young workers in the
labor camps and a profound disap-
pointment of the masses Of unem-
ployed and other recipients of re-
lief with further reductions in the
dole.
These are the great internal diff
culties of Hitler fascism which it is
trying to overcome by new chau-
whist wave Of terror.
Hitler was able to abandon his
anti-capitalist agitation and $50
cial" demagogy because that CORE
spends to the desires of his big bust
ness patrons. But his national dem
agogy, which helped him to power
through the chauvinist wave it de-
veloped, is the essential core of his
policy. 1t contradicts the nature of
fascism to surrender this as well. The
interests of ruling big business, es-
pecially heavy industry, as Hitler's
chief base, require the intensified
WILL VI POlNy Wv "a Ntl
greater INFLAMMATION, towards the
greatest possible rearnament and to-
wards imperialist war.
War Provocation Against U.S.S.R.
Driven by the intensification of
the crisis in its own country as well
as by the inevitability of the new
imperialist world war approaching
with fearful rapidity, and whipped
up by its own desire for war, Hitler
fascism appears as the war monger
in order to play leading role as a
saviour from Bolshcvism in new
imperialist war.
A prerequisite condition for this
participation in the leadership of the
campaign Of destruction against the
Soviet Union is immediate arna-
ment and militarization Of all Ger
many with the ruthless demolition
Of all existing letters.
There is no doubt that Hitlers
provocation Is connected with the
advance of japanese imperialism
against the U.S.SR. in the Far East
and with the new military campaign
against Soviet China now launched
under the command of the German
General Won Seeckt,
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she is paying the debt by sending a
token" payment of S7,500000,
Roosevelt, in statement, declared
that he still considers that Britain
recognizes the debt, and that the
full settlement Of the question will
have to await the overcoming of the
world economic crisis.
This means that the United States
and Britain are still using the debt
question as q weapon against one
another in their fierce imperialist ri
valry for world markets.
The practical default by Britain,
leaves the Soviet Union the only Eu-
ropean power whose record for
prompt and immediate payments OF
foreign debt obligations is clear.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-09
Britain in Practical
Default on US. Debts
Leaves Soviet Union AS Only Great European
Power to Meet Debts Promptly

WASHINGTON
States Britain the coming
White
default
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Los Angeles Workers
Defy Cops to Cheer
Soviet Revolution

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. g.
While uniformed and red squad cor
dons surrounded the building, $500
workers jammed the Mason Theatre
to celebrate the 10th anniversary Of
the Bolshevik Revolution. The work
ers enthusiastically greeted the So
Wet workers and cheered the Com
munist Party and Sam Darcy, Los
Angeles organizer.
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DimitrOff, TNgler
Grill Nazi Chief
on Witness Stand
Questions to Goebbels
Expose Frame-Up
of Nazis

Continued from Page -
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Farm Strike Leadership

THE latest reports from the farm OF the West
give unmsakable indications that the farmers class
against the starvation, robbery program Of the
Roosevelt government is rising to new heights.
This means that the question Of who shall lead the
strike takes on Hfeand-death Importance for the
cess Of the strike.