The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-18

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Rocks and stink bombs thrown
through the window of the hall put
the finishing touches to the meeting.
at which Heinz Spanknoebel, chief
Nazi organizer in the United States
was the chief speaker.
Nearly 1000 men battied on y
ttree-block front for an hour and a
half with fists, clubs and stones. More
than a score were injured in the
lighting, and seven were arrested in
GLIDING Walter Kauf, one of Span
knoebel's bodyguards, who. was ar
rested on a charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons when he swung out
with rubber hose which enca5ed
length of lead pipe.
Spanknoebel, who figured promi-
nently in the recent expose by the
Daily Worker Of Nazi activities in
this country, spoke in German from
a rostrum behind a swastika flag. He
was introduced by DR.. Albert Schley.
leader of the Newark Friends OF
New Germany" other speakers in
cluded DR.. G.. T. Griebel, national
president, and DR.. William Meyer of
Newark.
Spanknoebel had just concluded
his speech when a rear window,
opening from the speakers rostrum,
suddenly was smashed and two
rocks came flying in. Stink bombs
followed and Immediately there was
a grand rush for the exits by the
400 Nazis in the hall.
Realizing that the meeting could
not continue, the Nazi leaders hur-
riedly adjourned it with the singing
of the Horst Wessel', the official
anthem of the Hitlerites.
AS was to be expected, one OF the
first to make for the exits was Span
knoebel, thanked by number OF body
guards. The crowd began to jeer and
boo as the Nazi chief hurried to a
waiting automobile, and one man
jumped at Spanknoebel, but wasl
knocked to the ground by one Of the
Nazi yeggs, who guarded Spanknoebel.
Nazi pamphlets and large number
Of copies of "Mein KaInpf", Filters
official biography, were on sale at an
improvised newsstand inside
The United Front Conferences
Against Fascism is calling a meeting
tomorrow night "wednesday in
Krueger's Auditorium, IS Belmont
Ave, to protest Nazi activities in the
United States and to demand the re-
lease of Ernst Torgler, George DIM
jtroff, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil
Taneff, framed-up Communists now
OH trial in connection with the Nazi
Reichstag arson plot.
Speakers at the meeting will include
David Levinson, Philadelphia l. l.. D.
lawyer, who was barred by the Nazis
from defending the Bulgarian Com
munists although authorized by the
families of the defendants; Rabbi
Benjamin B. Goldstein. who was
ousted from synagogue in Mont-1
gomery, Ala, for his activity on be-
half of the Scottsboro boys: Tom
Truesdale, Negro worker, who will
speak for the Communist Party, and
Alfred Wagenknecht, Secretary of the
National Committee to Aid Victims
of German Fascism.
WASHINGTON, Oct. IL. - Con-
gresham Samuel Dickstein, Chairman
of the House Committee of Inmi-
grafton, following a brief talk with
Secretary of State Hull, reported
that he found the latter sympathetic
and willing to help in the investiga-
ton into Nazis activities in the U. S.
which Dickstein is planning.
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out g call to members Of his COM
mittee to meet for a session of the
investigation. The committee has no
power of subpoena. and witnesses who
appear do so of their own volition