The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
So Workers in Mass
Trial for Murders
NaziS Committed
Nazi Document Proves
Accused Are
Innocent


BERLIN, Nov, 94- Death by the
axe, at the hands of Fascist exc.
cutioher rugged UP in evening clothes
! and top hat--that is what the
"Angriff, official organ of the Fit
Ter Party, demanded today for So
workers on trial at the Court of AS
sizes in Berinl They are accused OF
the murder of Maikovsky, chief OF
the notorious Hitler Storm Detach-
ment, No. 80, and Police Officer
1auritz on Jan. 80; 1888 The muir
ders occurred during clash between
Nazis and workers self defense
groups in the WaHstrasse, Chariot
tenburg.
To clarity the events of Jan. 30,
1883, a copy of the extraordinary Sc
cret orders issued on that day to
Storm Detachment SO has Just been
made public by the Red Aid of Ger
many. The document, obtained from
sources reliable beyond any doubt,
reads. ~<~--
ga of the National Socialist
German Labour Party. Ia Horst
Vessel, 1s9 SO, Jan. 80, 1888. SA
Order III /Ss.
Il. The Chief SA-Leader, Our
leader Adolf Hitler, has become
Reichs- Chancellor. Now we must
prove that We are true SA men.
'2. The storm troopers are to be
In fighting trim. For u Is this
order only refers to the unern-
pIoyed. ..--5.-
'3, Today at 10 o'clock, all Off
GERS are TO come to the storm
troops dept, managing office, TIL
sitter Hof.
Il. All the troops are TO be in
headquarters at $50 o'clock for
verification. The troops having
gymnasium that evening must put
their sentries on guard while the
gymnastics are going on. All are
to come to the SturmIokal."
This document reveals that the
attack on the workers restaurant in
the WalIstrasse, where Communists
frequently gathered, had been Or
ganized beforehand by the Nazis,
who had already been heard to de-
clare that the Wanstrasse ought to
be Cleaned up" . little.
At 1f:30 pm, according to affi-
dayits received the next day from
dozens Of witnesses, the storm troops
thus nobilized-about $50 men
marched through the workers quar-
ters in Charlottenburg, Berlin. At
their head was Maikovsky.
They stopped at the restaurant be-
longing to Herman Behrendt and
smashed the window. The owner ran
out into the street and was shot
in the right arm. Windows were
thrown open, cries arose, THE Nazis
have attacked Local No. SOL" Hasti-
addressed people, many Of them in
bedroom slippers, ran out Of the
house.
When the front ranks of the Ma
ziS reached the corner of the Krum-
menstrasse, so that they blocked the
entrance to the Wallstrasse, they
came to halt. A police officer, Eau
ritz, went up to Maikovsky and
spoke to him, as if to pacify him.
The chief raised his hand and struck
the policeman. This was q signal to
the others. They pulled revolvers out
of their pockets and began to shoot.
At the first shots, the police officer
fell. The Nazis in the rear also
opened fire, and Maikovslzy, too, was
shot down-undoubt on secret
orders from his own chiefs.
After the murder of Maikovsky
and zauritz, dozens OF witnesses
proved that the police officer, Eau
ritz, was shot by Nazis and that
Maikoysky also-who for some time
had been undesirable to Nazis high
er up, perhaps because he knew too
much-was disposed of in the scuf-
file. Instead of arresting the Nazis,
however, the police declared the
Wallstrasse to be in state of siege.
Numerous houses were raided and
mass arrests followed.
Today So Innocent workers are
sitting on the prisoners bench. Death
threatens them, after trial that is
a nockery. The workers Of the world,
and all who are outraged by the muir
derous terror of the German Fas-
cists, must organize powerful mass
protests that will knock the axe out
of the hands Of the Fascist butchers.
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WOR KERS HAIL SOVIET
ROSELAND, ILL.,, Nov. Six hun