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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
Who Is the Mysterious Dutchman, Van der Lubbe?

through Germany and while there,
in April or May, 1881 he met DR.
George Bell according to the testi-
mony of one Of Bells friends. After
returning home, van der Lubbe again
started out for Germany, in Septem-
Der, 1881. He was arrested at the
frontier town of Gronau for selling
postcards without a license, fined
and released. In Munich, van der
Lubbe visited DR.. Bell. The most
important acquaintance made by him
in Munich was Captain Roehm, Hit
lers chief of staff. In 1882, the
Munich Post and other papers pub
lished letters from Roehm to young
men, from which it is clear that
Roehm is also homosexual. Bell
kept a list of these young men, to
use it as weapon against Roehm if
any conflict developed. Van der
Lubbe's name was on this list.
From that time on van der Lubbe
was in regular communication with
his Nazi friends. His friends in
Leyden testify unanimously that he
received many letters from Germany,
and that he always tried to hide
these letters from his Dutch friends.
In June, 1882 he was again in Ger
many, and spent night at Soerne-
WITT, where he was seen in the COM
pany OF local Nazi officials. The
official who reported van der
Lubbe's stay in Soernwitz, disap-
peared from sight after the Reich
stag fire.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
Mentally Unbalanced Young Hollander Had
Intimate Personal Relations With
High Hitherto Officials

tributed over his own signature. He
joined the League again in 1880, but
was no longer trusted and took no
active part. The question of his ex-
pulsion was raised in April 1881, and
van der Lubbe Immediately resigned
this time for good.
From that time on he had no con-
nection whatever with the Y. G. L.
or the Communist Party, and at
tackled the Communists at every
opportunity.
After his accident van der Lubbe
could not go back to his trade and
tried to earn his living as a tenn
porary waiter, as hotel porter,
selling potatoes, and working on a
ferry.
In 1920 he went to Calais, France,
and when he returned to Leyden,
said that he had tried to swim the
Channel. Detailed inquiries in Ca
lais fail to reveal that he ever made
the attempt, but his boasts on his
return are characteristic of his out
look. Inquiries into his life in Ley
den have definitely established that
van der Lubbe is homosexual. This
may seem unimportant, but it is Of
great significance for his later his
tory.
Van der Lubbe then tramped
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

the overcrowded street cars in Mos
cow. And the situation is being met
But what excuse is there for the hor-
rors Of the New York subway?
The private profiteers who own
the subway travel in fine automobiles
and taxis. The subway is for the
proletarfat and white collar wage
slave. Twice a day over a million
New York workers must spend 80 to
40 minutes in this hellhole, at least
an hour a day. Tired at night, they
must fight their way into the station.
then be showed like cattle into the
stockyard pens.
Have you ever seen a big beefv
subway thug throw himself on a
crowd Of passengers, pushing with
shoulders and fists to make them fit
into the cars? 1t is one of the atroci-
Gus sights of this wonderful city. It
makes everyone's blood boil, but after
your blood has boiled fully a hun
dred times, you accept things as
hopeless.
But 1t is not hopeless. The way
to get decent conditions in the sub
way Is for the workers to form their
self-defense corps, stand off these
brutes, then kick out the Tammanv
and capitalist grafters who profit by
this crowding; in other words. vote
Tor Bob Minor for Mayor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

periences as we did, to act similarly
to help build mass revolutionary
youth organization in the U. S.
through the Young Communist
League,
We call upon all members of the
YP.SL. to carry on the fight for
the united front.
(Signed)
George Smerkin, former national sec
rotary, YP.SL.
Sol Larks, former national director
YP.SLl.
Sylvia Arnstein, Junior director, Chi
cago, Y.P.SL.
Goldie Gatzuk, delegate, Circle 7,
Chicago, Y.P.SL.
Sue Gold, delegate, Circle /,
Nathan Friedman, dlegate, Circle l.
Harry Lidz, delegate, Circle 4.
Diane Wolman, delegate. Circle 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
Guardsmen's Pay in
Michigan Is Cut
Men in 125th Infantry
Have Shown Militancy
by a National Guardsman)

by National Guardsman)
DETROIT, Micn.-Members of the
National Guard, who always find
themselves called on to break strikes
when workers are fighting against
wage cuts and for better conditions,
found their own pay cut by 81 IL
per cent. Members of the 125th
Infantry, we're informed by their Of
ficers that they will have to train
48 nights during the year and be
paid for only twenty-four. Pre-
viouSly they were given one dollar for
each night of drilling, now they will
get eighty-five cents for alternating
evenings
This is the latest of petty rob-
berries against these men. At each
drill, officers force them to stay a
half hour overtime. Pay checks are
usually six weeks late. Bills for
cleaning clothes and equipment must
be paid from their own pockets.
During the summer training at
Camp Grayling, additional deduc-
tons from our pay was made. Each
OAAN Aio0 w ROJ P1scO AOl oilSC
The officers collected So per man
for mess fund
The Michigan National Guards
men have shown on previous occa-
sions that they can be militant.
During last years encampment at
Camp Grayling their pay was also
reduced from $50 to $3.50 a month.
When Governor Comstock came to
review them, he was booed, the men
shouting, I'VE want our full pay
back" This resulted in the rapid
resembling of the pay cut.
The fact that the guardsmen are
used against the workers, is becom-
ing clearer to a number of the men.
They see the bosses government cuts
their pay, just as the boss cuts the
wages of his workers.
The demands of the men are: No
cut in pay 81 for each for forty
eight weeks a year; payment to be
promptly every three months; no
charge for cleaning equipment and
clothes; and the government to pay
for insurance.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
IGoldschmidt AssaiIs
Nazi Rule; Hits the
Reichstag Frameup
EXiled Professor Says
Hitler Rule Increases
Unemployment

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-1n a Bit
ter arrangement of Hitherto rule in
Germany, Prof. Alfons Goldschmidt
predicted that the anti Fascist forces
within Germany, if aided by the in
tellectuals of the outside world would
bring about the overthrow of the
Nazi regime, at dinner in his
honor given at the Hotel Lissmore
here last night by the American
Committee Against Fascist Oppres-
sion in Germany.
Dr. Goldschmidt, who was dean of
the economics department of the
University of Leipzig until 1920, later
teaching at Cordova, Mexico City
and Buenos Aires, pointed out that
the theory of FasciSm lis not re-
evolutionary as the Nazis claim! 1t
aims rather at maintaining the
existing economic system. The gov
eminent and economic organization
of the German Fascists are the CEN
tralization of reaction and bank
ruptcy"
Distress
He added that the Nazis in Ger
many know no remedy for the fright
full economic distress in the country
but race brutality and clubbing
down the working-cl and it's de-
Tenders" He pointed out that Ma
tional Socialism means:
l, Increasing unemployment; 2.
1ntensification of antagonisms be-
tween town and country; 8. Inten-
sification of class antagonisms; 4.
Fictitious unification, that is the
Capitalization of bankruptcy.
Attacks Reichstag Frame-up
Prof. Goldschmidt asked drama
tically why are they beheading
workers-they who claim to be a
labor party? Why did they stage the
terrible burning of the Reichstag,
unprecedented in the history of
frame-ups, which they are now con-
tinuing with an equally horrible
judicial farce? Why do they call
for war against the Soviet Union,
which is building up its economy
and its civilization in Eesce?
Because they are merely brutal
and hot strong. Because they can
not give Germanys working people
even enough of the bread which the
German peasants produce in excess. y
In closing Prof. Goldschmidt ap-
pealed to the intellectuals of AM
erica to fight for the true op-
pressed Germany" against the Hitler
rule.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
BASIS OF ELECTION OF DELE
GATES TO ANTI-W WAR
CONGRESS

NEW YORK, Sept. 2s.-All local
and national 90
groups of workers of shop meet
ing for the puipo-e -,
egates to the Congress are entitled
to one delegate to the United States
Congress Against War, converting
in New York City on Sept. 20, if
their membership is below 125; two
delegates if the membership is from
126 to $50, and one delegate for
every additional $50 members or
major fraction thereof, Donald
Henderson, Secretary of the Con-
gress, stated today 49,
All delegates and alternates must
register personally on Wednesday
or Thursday at 104 Fifth Ave. Room
1910, or on Friday at st. Nicholas
Arena, SO West Seth ST., from
9 am. to pm.
All local organizations which have
elected two delegates where their
membership is less than 125 should
name one of them an alternate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
An Affair With Some Motor
Buses.

made my first trip to the Soviet
Union in 1925, and saw the first
motor BUSES running up the Tver-
skaya Boulevard in Moscow. There
we're six of them, bright tan mon
sters imported from England Every
one on the streets gazed upon them
proudly, and l, too, was filled with
the emotion I now feel about the
subway.
It's feeling Americans ought to
understand. We had it in this coun-
try when the first transcontinental
railroads were built, when every Am
erican still felt that unbounded pos
sibilities lay before each individual,
when there were still millions of acres
Of free land. The pioneer spirit is
dead now in America one finds it
burning only in Moscow.
The Soviet Union also was a be-
leaguered fortress of the working
class It was blockaded, invaded,
torn by civil war and sabotage. The
capitalists of the world tried to crush
this big strike, but failed. And then
into this hungry, blockaded, bleeding
world came messengers of peace and
progress-six motor BUSES.
Today there is a crisis everywhere
in the capitalist world. Building is
at a standstill, and has been for
years. But the Soviet workers bold
ly go ahead and build a subway; they
are building Dnieperstroys, dams,
stadiums, schools, apartment houses.
Not for sentimental reasons, of
course. They need subway, yet
somehow the thing becomes a symbol,
like everything in the Soviet Union
transfigured by the light of great
goal.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

upon b1e Ndzl tangle OF lies lar over
Swallowed the courts endeavor to get
van. der Lubbe, Nazi tool, to confess
that he was a Communist and plotted
the fire "as part of Communist plot
to start a revolution
Van Der Lubbe on the Stand
While the world press believes that
van der Lubbe is dying, Presiding
Judge Buenger insists that van der
Lubbe is capable of following the
proceedings of the trial
Van der Lubbe was examined re-
garding three fires he is alleged to
have started before the Reichstag
fire. Judge Buenger's method is to
present van der Lubbe with a fin
ished statement, requiring only Yes
or mo" answers. Van der Lubbe's
replies are inaudible, but the inter
prefer states Eyes" or mo alter
nately.
Judge; why did you fire these
buildingsP"
Van der Lubbe: MY own ideas
Judge: What we're your reasons
for doing it?"
Van der Lubbe: 81 didn't know
myself at the time"
Judge Buenger's shameless efforts
to induce van der Lubbe to say that
the reason for his firebug activities
was to AROUSE the workers" Gull
minated in the question:
"You said, did you not that your
object was to arouse the workers
struggling for freedom?" Ans: mo-
A Forged Confession"
The judge then read a political
confession allegedly made by van
der Lubbe on April % while in Gus
tody. The Fascist hand of the con-
fession's real author could be recog-
nized, the otherwise confused docu-
ment designating the proletarian
revolution alternately as advancing
development" and as "the destruction
of the capitalist system"
Van der Lubbe declared that he
acted alone. Presiding Judge Buen-
ger made repeated and desperate eff
forts to get the defendant to make
a great Communist declaration but
van der Lubbe refused.
The judge asked van der Lubbe's
official physician, DR.. Schuetz, to
persuade him to speak. DR.. Schuetz,
obviously a Fascist tool, stated that
van der Lubbes speechlessness was
deliberate defensive trick at the
orders of the Communist Party"
This assertion was refuted by the
four Communist defendants bold
and defiant attitude.
Bulgarian Communists Shunted Out
of Proceedings
The three Bulgarian defendants
are being provided with brief and
totally inadequate translation of van
der Lubbes examination. Popoff
concluded that the Bulgarians are
not charged with participation in
the first three arson cases, which
Judge Buenger confirmed.
Dimitroff Seizes Offensive
George Dimitroff then stepped
forward, turning the proceedings into
trial of the Nazi murder plot, de-
claring: Van der Lubbe seems to
have spoken theoretically enough in
his examination before trial, but he
is silent today. If van der Lubbe
really is normal as the psychiatrists
assert, there is only one possible
hypothesis for me-"
Judge Buenger angrily interrupted:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
Street Cars.

Now that I have written my love
letters to the Moscow subway, let me
say I am also glad because when I
visit there again it will not be neces-
sary to travel in the street cars. Our
subways are crowded, but Moscow's
street cars overtake and surpass us
on that score.
The city has grown too fast. and
transportation and housing have not
been able to keep up.
Moscow street cars, however. are
infinitely more interesting than our
gloomy subway. One is always sure
to wander into furious political and
philosophical debate on wheels.
Somebody steps on someone's corns,
there is a growl, and then the whole
car joins in a discussion OF surplus
value, the poetry of Biedny, British
imperialism, the latest play at the
Mayerhold theatre, and so forth.
It's great. It's educational. The
Russian worker is really an intel
lectual in overalls, and has an
Elizabethan gusto for every form Of
physical and mental adventure.
Yet, will ever forget the time I
was pushed around in one Of the
street car jams? 1t was bitter cold
day, about thirty below, and 1 was
trying to keep warm. But there was
a sudden rush for the door at
street stop, 1 was showed on and
out, and found myself on the pave
ment, with my overcoat Tapping
open to the breeze. Every button had
been ripped Off Extraordinary, and
had no safety pins, and didn't know
anybody in Moscow owning needle,
thread and buttons. SO hooray for
he new subway
Down With Subway Brutes.
There is a good social reasor for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
Italy Supports Nazi Retaining

AT the same time, the Italian del
egation at Geneva made proposal
for increasing Hitler Germany's arm
aments, raising the regular army
strength to 100000 men, and allow
ing Germany to double its "defen-
Sive weapons" This was widely in
terpreted as blow aimed at French
military hegemony on the European
continent, and provoked violent ex-
pressions of disapproval from the
French disarmament" delegates
headed by the ex-Socialist Paul
Boncour, French Foreign Minister.
Nations Retaining All Over Europe
Paralleling these re-armament
moves in Washington and Geneva
dispatches from abroad report fever
ish efforts to increase armed forces
and weapons by the Little Entente
Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rouma-
MIA, while other countries, such as
Belgium, Switzerland, and the Baltic
states are also increasing their arm
aments under the pretext of "Nazi
threats to peace"
The events in Washington and
Geneva make 1t utterly unlikely, it
Is held, to expect anything but a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
Dimhof Dominates Leipzig Trial, Defying Nazi Judg
What
q
World
By Michael Gold
Our Subway.

The newspapers report that the
Moscow subway will be running by
next spring. Why does that make
one happy? Why does it make one
feel better than a Wall Street patriot
who has Just collected a hundred
thousand dollars on somebody elses
wheat?
Really, I am not so crazy about
subWays in general. l don't think
could ever work up any personal
affection for the New York subway
It is a grim gloomy torture chamber,
in which pale masses twist and groan
as in Dante's inferno, In the CHASTITY
flicker a million New York wage
slaves travel back and forth, crowded
UNANIMOUSLY by a greedy corporation
There is nothing too nasty that
one might not say against the New
York subway. 1t is noisy, dirty and
vile. The London subway is cleaner
and quieter, the Paris metro is more
comfortable. have travelled in
both, and though pleased by the con-
trast with New York, felt none Of
this heart throb that l feel when !
read the news of Moscow subway.
Dear little subway, I feel like pat
ting you on the head. You are q
newborn Soviet baby. You are the
flowers that bloom in the spring. You
are like a big strike victory. Your
wheels make finer music than any
symphony orchestra. You are mine
you are ours!
Now isn't that foolish, like love
letter to subway Very few New
Workers. who hate subways will ever
understand such an emotion. So lei
me explain:
There is no private ownership ir
the Soviet Union. This subway, like
all the factories, public utilities, land
and sky belongs not to profiteers but
to the people.
More than that, this subway il
another step along the way TOWARD
the time when the Soviet Union viii
be a land of mass luxury. Everyone
in America who wants a new life
in which there will be no rich or poor
no war or classes, is glad whenever
the Soviet Union makes a step for
ward. Thousands and thousands Of
people all over the world are glad tc
hear that Moscow has a new sub
way, and feel as personally proud anc
subjectively happy about it as I do
zes, It's our subway.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
Disease and Hunger
Follow in Wake of
Tampico Hurricane

MEXICO, d. F., Sept. 27.-One Of
ficial estimate places the number of
dead in storm stricken Tanipico at
81 and injured at more than $50.
Many more bodies are buried under
the ruins of the devastated city.
In a few days the horrors of the
cyclone and the flood will be in
creased by hunger, thirst and the in
evitable epidemics. The store of
wheat is expected to last only three
dr. more.
Most of the surrounding towns are
crying for aid. Many of the victims
in these shore communities have been
swept to sea by the floods of the
Panuco River. Tens of thousands are
left homeless. General Anselmo Ma
cias, director of relief work, stated
that no building in Tampico itself
was left unframed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

Great Britain had officially sug-
gested that these cruisers, of wholly
new type, be postponed pending ne
gotiations for abolishing this class
of warships, but the State Depart
ment replied that cit did not see its
way clear to alter its delayed naval
construction program or to suspend
the laying down of any projected
ships"
The negative answer of the State
Department was transmitted to Nor
man Davis, American chief delegate
at Geneva, for communication to Sir
John Simon, British Foreign Secret
airy.
Coming, as this does, at the re-
opening of the Disarmament Con-
ference at Geneva, this brusque re-
fusal of the American Government
to stop building more warships is a
twelve-inch shell aimed at the very
core of the pretense of disarmament.
Two days before the Anti-War Con-
gress opens in New York, President
Roosevelt's New Deal Administration
shows just where it stands on the
question of disarmament.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
9 Prisoners Shoot Way
Out of Indiana Prison

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Sept. 81
Nine long-term convicts, all armed
with revolvers, crashed through the
Indiana State Penitentiary today and
escaped after kidnapping a sheriff
and shooting bystander.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

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farcical outcome OF the present ses-
sion of the Disarmament Conference.
The capitalist world plunges head
long into was as the only solution
for its growing difficulties.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
US. Bans British Cut in
Building of Cruisers
Italy Proposes Doubling German Army in
Geneva Negotiations; Turned Down
by French Delegation

WASHINGTON Sept 27The United
turned down British proposal delay building
sxnch contracted
lions of dollars appropriated the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
TURNS COURTROOM into
FORUM, CHARGING NAILS
With MUzZLING DEFENSE
Charges Van der Lubbe Is Silent Because
"Of Crime He Has Committed Against
World Proletariat'
Especial Gable to the Daily worker)

AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, 81
The fifth the Reichag trial
challenging
Dmtro Bulgarian Communist the chief defendants
straightforward
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28
Expelled Members of
Y.P.S.L. Tell Why
They Joined Y.C.L.
Describe Fight for United Front Actions; Call
YPSL-SP Leadership Anti orkingclass

YORK-ExpeIed Peoples Socialist
energetcay the
Mooney, leading
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-28

Down With Subway Brutes.
There is good social reason for
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