The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26
W.L.R. APPEALS
FOR DEFENSE OF
JAILED LEADERS
A n I'll Fascist w ee k
Will Be Response Of
y. S. Workers

BERLIN, July 25.-The Executive
Committee Of the international
Workers Relief, meeting secretly
under the conditions of Nazi terror
in Berlin, have issued a stirring call
to the toilers of all countries to come
to the defense of the German and
Bulgarian Communists charged with
setting fire to the Reichstag.
German Fascism is beginning to
carry out the second part of the vile
provocation commenced by setting the
Reichstag on fire." the manifesto de-
clares.
"At the Supreme Court in Leipzig
the curtain will be raised amidst the
savage howls of fascist. propaganda.
Fascist reaction is creating a pogrom
atmosphere against the revolutionary
fighters.
Meanwhile the Storm Troops con-
tinue to torture Torgler, to keep Di-
mitrov Popoff, and Tanev in chains.
F'rightful tortures have been applied
in the effort to extort confession"
from them.
"By means of torturing their VIC
tins, the fascist incendiaries and pro-
vocateurs are attempting to bring
forward again the fairy story, already
exposed in the eyes of the whole
world, that not they, but the Com
munists, set the Reichstag on fire.
'They must not and they will not
succeed in this ~ 800 5'.s. y.
German fascism cannot possibly
clear itself of the crime of February
9th. Nor is it able to wash its hands
of the blood of the thousands of
workers tortured to death, of the
thousands beaten and maltreated, or
to wipe off the guilt Of the provocatory
death sentences against the prole-
tarians in Altoona. and Chemnitz.
.Tncendiaries the Judges"
'The rulers of the Third Realm
are preventing the defense of the de-
PENDANTS, they are threatening the
German lawyers with reprisals if they
undertake the defense of the tortured
prisoners, they will not permit the
defense to be undertaken by the for
eign barristers ready to defend Torg-
Ter and the Bulgarian political emig-
res. They tremble at the idea that
the real facts may come to light
The incendiary Goering considers that
he may feel safe only if fast-dyed
fascists conduct the defense" of the
prisoners. Incendiaries are to be the
judges, incendiaries are to be the
defending counsel, incendiaries are
to pronounce sentence!
But they will deceive nobody! Al
ready workers and intellectuals de-
| legations are coming forward in many
countries, elected by the masses, ready
to undertake the active defense of the
victims of Hitler Terror
whilst the juridical comedy is be-
ginning in Leipzig, the toilers of the
whole world will place German fas-
cism in the prisoners dock. In mil
lions they will gather round the heroi-
cally struggling German proletariat
the victims of the unheard of fas-
cist Terror. In meetings and demon
STATIONS they will pronounce theil
verdict on Hitler and Goering, who
placed the incendiary torch in the
hands of their mercenary van der
Lubbe
"Toilers! Unmask, stigmatise, anc
prevent the criminal juridical muir
Ger being planned!
Force the exposure of the bloody
methods employed in the examination
of the prisoners. Demand that all
the details of the examinations be
made public. demand the names OF
the brutal fascist warders who tor
ture the prisoners.
Demand energetically that defend
! ing counsel chosen by the defendants
themselves be permitted to undertake
the defense!
Demand the release of the defend
ants and of all political prisoners!
Down with fascism and White Ter
ror! Long live international prole-
tartan solidarity"