The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-25
A Defeat for FasciSm Thru
World Mass Action!

ants Dirnitrof1, Torgler, Popon and Tanef.
- Thus German fascism, in this frame-up attempt
to build moral justification for its seizure of power
for its unparalleled savagery and murder against the
German working class has met with defeat
We, the workers of the world, by the might of our
protest have forced the Nazis to beat retreat
In this battle between Fascdsm and Communism, it
is Communism which energies victorious and with
every fran1e-up charge against it blasted to pieces
while Fascism stands forth dripping with perjury and
Justification, its hfdeous face indebly marked with
guilt
The trial was to have demonstrated the Communist
guilt and the Nazi innocence. Instead the Leipzig
trial has proved before the whole world that the guilt
is upon the hands of the Fasciss themselves Nothing
that the Nazis do erase the unmstakable
evidence Of their guilt in the Reichstag fire.
The Communist Party stands forth as the leader Of
the German masses untanted by the slightest evidence
Of adventurs, absolutely innocent Of the slightest
acts OF individual terrorism the organizer of the
struggles of the whole German working-class against
the Fascist dictatorship and for the proetaran
luton.
pUT it would be dangerous folly it would be
crime against the German working-cla and
against the four heroic defendants if it were thought
that this verdict, wrung from the Fascist frame-up
eours by the enormous power of the world mass pro-
test and the relentless probing Of Dmirroff lessons
for one moment the danger of Fascist murder OF
cur heroic comrades
Let us not forget our comrades are still in the
hands of the Fascist judges And in every accent
tie summing up speech of the Fascist Judge Buenger
tae Judge whom the capitalist press is at this NOM
ent laudng for his fairness" there beat the very
same hatred of the Communist defendants, the very
same SANDER Of the Fascist prosecutor that the
Communist Party of Germany is guilty of the Reich
stag fire. that all Communists in Germany are, by
the very token Of their Communism, guilty of
treason" and legally subject to torture and
ton.
With inSolent disregard of all the evidence the
Fascist Judge cloaked the perjury of the Nazi
witnesses cloaked the obvious guilt Of the Nazis
repeated almost in the identical language of the NaZ
prosecutor the charge that the Communist Party still
remains the guilty agent of the crimel
THE Fascist press openly calls for the lynching of
the Communist defendants On every side among
the Nazs is heard Goerings manacal threat against
DinitrofT: Wait till you get out Of this court"
The Fascist terror grows. Every day German work
are found murdered by the Storm Troopers Every
day, hundreds of the best German workers herded
into the foul concentration camps where they meet
torture and death At this very moment "a German
Communists of them mere youths await the
Nazi axe, doomed by the Nazi courts.
Comrade Thaelmann, Communist leader OF the
German working -class, is still kept in the Nazi dun
geons in torture and isolation The NaM beast still
RACES.
THE Leipzig verdict has been hailed by the capitalist
press and various liberals, not only as a vindica-
ton Of the defendants but as a greater vindcaton
OF the Fascist court.
The New York Times for example states With grim
oompacency
I'VE not justified in saying that acquittal
OF the four Communists due to the pressure of
public opinion outside of Germany. It was rather
the verdict of the German judges courageously living
up to the duties Of their high office"
= And Arthur Garfield Hays, who was member of
ffSa worry Ando
guilt OF the Fascists states:
w. In view of the present Judgment, I am con-
strained to state that this court has been fair"
What is behind this?
The capitalist press thus striving to throttle that
very same mass protest that wrng the present verdict
from the Naz court! 1t is fearful that the mass
actions of the masses against Fascism will rise to
heights dangerous to Fascsm everywhere 1t is fear
fu that the working class faced with the evidence
OF its own mass power will carry too far the struggle
against Fascist reaction right here at home!
It is fearful that this great victory of world mass
action that the tremendously enhanced prestige of
the Communist Party of Germany and the story of
it's heroic leadership of the German working class
against the Fascist capitalist reaction will bring too
close to home the revolutionary lessons of the Reich
stag trial.
They are thus striving to knife the mass protest
Of the world at the most critical momentl
QY our mass actions we have in this battle beaten
that our Comrades still alive blind us to the
grave danger in which comrades are Now our
fight must be redoubled must rise to tremendous
heights for the safe release of our comrades from
the Nazi jailers.
BY the same method that forced the admis-
sion OF their innocence, we wrest them COM
E retely from the hands of the Nazis,
We must go to fellow workers with the lesson
OF cur first victory, must offer them eagerly the
hand OF United Front struggle against Fascism Into
the shops into the unions into the A. F. L. locals
the Socialist Party locals, to all haters of Fascsm
we must go with the message of continued United
Front struggles for release OF the Leipzig defendantsi
We must show them that it is mass actions that
have forced the Leipzig mot guilty" verdict and that
only our continued relentless United Front struggles
Win Sooa,i0t workers, A. F. of L. workers. all united
IN firm working Class solidarity, can force the fas
cists to grant our comrades safe release
Forward 70 tne next stop For the immediate
safe release Of the Communist defendantsl