The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
Demonstrate for
Freedom of Four
Framed by Nazis
Continued from Page u
with the brave Communists in the
face Of the Nazi murder threats.
Hundreds Of Thousands Watch

Hundreds OF Thousands Watch
Spirited and militant from begin
ming to end, the marchers on this
day of international working class
protest against the Nazi Reichstag
flre-trial frame up and threats
against the lives OF the four defend
ants, let hundreds of thousands of
workers on the sidewalks Of New York
know that the militant American
workers are determined that the Nazi
butchers shall not slaughter the in
rocent defendants.
Consul Sneaks Out
A delegation of 40 was elected to
present the workers protest to the
Naz Consul. But the police rushed
to the doors OF the Whitehall Build
ing, where the consulate is located,
and would let only five in. When
the Nazi Consul heard the delegation
was on its way up to his office, he
sneaked out the back door, down an
other elevator and virtually ran away.
Police refused to let any reporters
into the consulate to hear the work
ers' protest and demand for release
Of the four framed-up fire-trial de-
PENDANTS.
Protest Resolution
I'VE thousands OF workers, profess
SIGNALS, intellectuals, in protest dem
onStration at the German Con-
sulate, vehenently condemn the pro-
posed execution of Torgler, and the
death threats against Dimitroff,
Taneff and Popoff by the Hitler Fas-
cist government which you represent, Z"
stated the resolution unanimously
adopted and left with the Nazi lackey
who met the delegation.
The delegation was composed Of
Pauline Rogers, chairman of the New
York Committee to Aid Victims Of
German Fascism; C. Blohm, OF the
Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit
Society, representing $4,000 German
workers in cultural and fraternal or
| CARNATIONS: M. Bruce, of the LID;
John Cole, of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, and A. Kaufman,
of the International Workers Order.
I'm the name of hundreds Of thou
sands Of workers, we protest against
the attempted murder by the Fascist
hangmen of the four innocent de-
PENDANTS in Leipzig" said Comrade
Rogers.
"You were here before" said the
Consul's lackey.
"Will Come Again and Again
Eyes, and we are here in greater
numbers than ever before, and will
continue to come here i'll tens OF
thousands more until your Fascist
butcher regime releases our COM
rades, replied Comrade ROGERS.
Speaking for the Marine Workers,
Comrade Cole said: "We are going to
organize all marine workers to snatch
these four brave Communists from
the grasp of your bloody government"
Comrade Bloom, who was the next
to protest against the frame-up, said
TN the name of $4,000 German work
ers we protest against the bloody Hit
Ter regime, and demand the release
Of the four defendants in the Reich
stag fire trial. The guilty ones are
the Fascist butchers of Germany.
"The German workers in this coun-
try are opposed to Hitler's regime,
and will work against it until it is
overthrow"
Call for Fight on y. S. Fascism
A scowl spread over the face Of
the Nazi agents when they read the
resolution stating: "The masterful
defense made by pimitroff, and the
other defendants shattered the per-
jured and framed up case of the Ma
zis against these heroic fighters and
forced even your Nazi prosecutor to
declare their innocence"
The resolution concluded by de-
inanding the immediate release of the
defendants, saying:
1--WE call upon all workers and SYM
pathizers to unite in the struggle
against the growing danger Of Fas-
cism in the United States and for
the overthrow of the Hitler Fascist
regime"
The delegation was greeted with
thunderous applause and shouts when
it came out and reported on it's in
terview with the Nazi officials.
AS the demonstration came to an
end the workers, spontaneously and
without previous arrangement, swung
into orderly ranks, and started a
march through the waterfront district
Again the police rose to the occa-
sion end swung into action. Chief
OF Police O'Brien, thanked With police
afoot and on horse, stood in front Of
the line and told the workers that
since they had no permit they could
not parade
With the red banner OF the Ham
burg Workers Club inscribed with the
slogan in German. Workers of the
World, Unitsl' at tie front, the work.
CTS, more than 5000 strong SWUNG
down Hudson St. on the long march
to Union So.
Carrying banners denouncing the
Hitler terror, demanding the safe ant
immediate release of the innocent
victims Of the Reichstag fire tria
frame-up, demanding the release Of
the Scottsboro boys, the WORKER,
marched through the entire West Sid,
waterfront.
No police headed this spontaneous
parade of the New York workers, ant
no police dared to halt it in its lint
Of march. Defying the traffic rules tn,
workers forced traffic to move to thei
wishes.
| At 18th st. the workers turned {.
march to Union So. Again traffic wa
halted while the workers took tn
city's streets. Shouting slogans, TIL
workers circled Union 3d., took com
mand Of the large stone band stan,
at the north end of the square, an,
asked the leaders OF the demonstra