The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-14

delegation-part of an intern
vestigation of conditions in
Nazi concentration camps.
Torgler, head of the Com
munist fraction in the German
Reichstag, George Dimitroff,
Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Po-
poff, all face death at the
hands of the Hitler hangmen
on frame-up charges of having
set fire to the Reichstag build
ing on March q, last.
European Lawyers Join
Francisco Nitti, italian anti-fascist
leader and lawyer; Arthur Garfield
Hays, prominent American attorney,
and a number of other lawyers from
France. Belgium, England, Spain and
Holland will join Gallagher in Am
sterdam. These lawyers, all Of whom
have been retained by the defendants
and their families. will demand the
right to enter Germany and actively
participate in the defense Of Torg-
Ter, Thaelmann and the other Com
nunist leaders.
They will also demand the right
for the entire committee Of lawyers,
intellectuals and workers organized
BY the International Red Aid-to en-
ter Germany for the purpose of in
vestigating conditions in the Nazi
concentration camps.
''We will make a determined fight
to get into Germany" Gallagher said
in an interview in the office of the
National Committee to Aid Victims
of German Fascism, rs Fifth Ave,
which is organizing the American
delegation. With Gallagher on the
delegation is also Mary Heaton Worse,
author and labor journalist, who is
already in Europe, as well as a ma
tive-born American railroad worker.
Mass send-off Tomorrow
A mass send-off for Gallagher Just
before he sails for Amsterdam on the
"S.S. Staatendam" will be held at
the German Workers Club. 1886
Third Ave, in the heart of New
York's German section, tomorrow
evening (Tuesday) under the aus
pieces of the National Committee for
The Defense of Political Prisoners.
Speakers will include Malcolm
Cowley, editor of the New Republic;
Frank Spector, assistant national sec
rotary Of the International Labor
Defense; c. A. Hathaway. editor Of
the Daily Worker, who will speak for
the Communist Party; Haywood
Broun, A. j. Music, Rabbi Benjamin
B. Goldstein of the National Com
mittee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners, and A. Wagenknecht. sec
rotary of the National Committee to
Aid Victims of German Fascism.
Samuel Ornitz, author of "Haunch,
Paunch and Jowl," will preside.
"The international committee to
Investigate the Nazi concentration
camps" Gallagher said. "will as
semble in Amsterdam, Holland, on
Aug. 20 and request visas en- masse
to Germany. This committee will be
composed of representatives from al
most every European country and the
United States. The delegates will be
prominent lawyers, liberals, writer's
and trade unionists.
To Investigate Nazi Camps
More than $4,000 German prisoners
fill the Nazi concentration camps to-
day." Gallagher stated. 'Intellectu-
ais, workers, students, Communists,
Socialists, women and even children
are herded into them. The miIdest
protest against the Hitler regime re-
suits in arrests and sentences to these
Terror camps, where the inmates are
subjected to bestial brutality, hunger
and iron military discipline.
The National Committee to Aid
Victims of German Fascism," Gal
lagher continued, receives daily
stories of grueSome cruelty and re-
voting atrocities; children arrested
and held as hostages for relative,
wanted by the Storm Troopers, brand
ing with swastikas, dosing with cas-
sor oil, floggings, etc."
The American delegation, which is
headed by Gallagher, is endorsed BY
Prof. John Dewey, Sidney Howard
playwright; Theodore Dresser, novel
list; DR.. Alvin johnson, director Of
the New School for Social Research,
and Malcolm Cowley, editor of the
New Republic. The counterpart of
the American Committee exists in
most European countries. On the
French committee, for example. are
Roman Holland, Maurice Maeter-
linck, Maurice Rostand and Andre
Glide.
Led Mooney Court Fight
1t was Gallagher, who as attorney
Tor the International Labor Defense
led the fight for the new trial for
Tom Mooney on an old but unused
Indictment. His outspoken and cour-
ageous stand during the trial before
Judge Ward Of San Francisco was
IN sharp contrast to the wheedling.
apologize tactics Of Frank P. Walsh.
VINO persistently attacked the mass
action which Mooney has called for
curing the II years Of his imprison-
'ment in San Quentin penitentiary.
Beaten BY Red Squad
Gallagher is the kind of battling
lawyer who has not been immune
from physical attacks from the noto-
rious Red Squad" in Los Angeles.
appearing before the City Council
with several hundred workers to pro-
test raid on the Hollywood John
Reed Club headquarters-when a.
large number Of valuable murals
were Wantonly destroyed Gallagher
was set upon by six members of Red
Hy1es' squad and severely beaten.
On another occasion be had come