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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Lawyer Reports 'Rote Fahne' Editor and Others
Will Be Made to Stand Trial With Torgler
and 3 Bulgarian Leaders in September

1t is obvious that here we have to
do with tactical move and not a
real retreat on the part of the Nazi
authorities, who calculate as follows:
AS ever wider circles of prominent
and world-famous newspapers, schol-
ars, artists, and statesmen have
taken up the cause of the innocent
victims of the Reichstag fire frame
up, and ever broader masses are be-
ing modified on their behalf, it
would be unwise to talk a lot about
Torgler, Dimitroff, Popoff and Ia
neff, as this would only further the
campaign for their rescue.
More Communists Accused
1t is not a case here of retreat
on the part of the Nazi criminals.
On the contrary, all reliable news
in connection with the judicial muir
der which is being prepared indicates
that the number of the accused is
being increased. The fact that the
prosecuting authorities are endeavor-
ing to involve Werner Hirsch, the
former editor of the "Rote Fahne,"
in the trial, who was arrested at the
same time as Ernst Thaelmann, is
sufficient evidence that here an att
tempt is being made to stage mon
ster trial. This is also confirmed by
the statement which the investigat-
ing judge, Vogt, made to the Bull
garian lawyer Detcheff, who has
been instructed by the parents of the
accused Bulgarian comrades to de-
fend their sons. Vogt said that, in
addition to Torgler, Dimitroff, ETC.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
By WILLY TROSTEL.

AFTER the German authorities had
n maintained silence for weeks re-
garding the trial in connection with
the Reichstag fire, several partly
contradictory reports have recently
reached the public.
First the foreign lawyers from
Brunn and Strassburg, who had Of
fered to defend the accused, were in
formed that they would not be per-
mitted to act as defending counsel.
The Leipzig Court then announced
that the preliminary investigation
was concluded and that the trial
would take place in the first half of
September.
Shortly afterwards the Bavarian
Minister for Justice, Frank, declared
that the trial would not take place
until December, and stated at the
same time that Van der Lubbe could
not have set fire to the Reichstag
alone, although he did not repeat
the charge hitherto brought against
Torgler, Dimitroff and the other ac-
cused.
On the other hand, the "Berliner
Boersen Zeitung," which is more or
less the official mouthpiece of Vogt,
the investigating judge, reported
that the trial would nevertheless take
place in September. But this paper
likewise spoke only of the trial of
the incendiary Van der Lubbe. Final
ly, the Leipzig Court announced that
it had appointed official defenders
for the accused.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Still More Communists Reported Accused in Recstag FrameUp

mer vacation, while Dimitroff and
Torgler were lying in iron letters.
therefore spoke with Vogt's rep
resentative, to whom he had referred
me, and declared to him that accord
ing to Paragraph 1877 of the German
criminal code, foreign lawyers have
the right to act as defending counsel
in Germany and to speak with their
clients. But my words fell on deaf
ears and / learnt from Vogt's rep
resentative only the terrible fact
that a few days previously Taneff
had attempted to commit suicide, but
his life had been saved by the prison
doctor.
"He refused to reply to my ques-
ton in what way Taneff had at
tempted to commit suicide and what
reasons had induced him to make
this attempt. was very excited and
requested that | at least be allowed
to see Taneff, if only for a moment
and without speaking to him. The
investigating Judge declared that
this also was out of the question"
Taneff's fate is now the fate of
thousands and thousands who are
being tortured behind barbed wires,
behind prison walls, on whose lives
attempts are made, which attempts
sometimes fail and then the victims
are rescued by the prison doctor.
What happened to Comrade Taneff
yesterday can happen tomorrow to
n n l.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Anti-Nazi Week
Dates Announced
in Many Cities
OF her Cities Urged
to Organize
Drives

NEW YORK.-The National Com
mittee to Aid Victims of German
Fascism today made the following
announcement.
"All friends of the movement to
aid the victims and demand freedom
for the class war prisoners of the
Hitler murder regime are requested
to cooperate in the following protest
and collection weeks:
Newark, August IA to 81; Chicago,
to August 20; Frisco, to August 81;
Buffalo, to August 81: Cleveland to
August 81; Philadelphia, to August
81.
Detroit, Rochester, Los Angeles,
Grand Rapids, Trenton, Yonkers,
Bridgeport, Denver, Erie, Toledo,
Syracuse, Providence and other cities
should decide upon protest and col
lection weeks for early September.
"A protest mass meeting was held
in Denver, August IL, with speakers
from the International League for
Human Freedom, I. l.. D., Committee
to Aid Victims of German Fascism,
United Front for Unemployment In
surance, Communist Party and So
cialist Party.
Pittsburgh protest and collection
week will be held August Is to Sep
TENDER S."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Lower Manhattan
Jobless March to
Relief Buro Today
Conference Tomorrow;
Jobless Women Form
Federation

NEW YORK. - A march to the
Home Relief Bureau on Spring and
Elizabeth streets to demand adequate
relief, payments Of rent and no dis
elimination against any worker is
organized for this morning by local
2 and 3 of the Workers Committee
on Unemployment. Workers on the
lower East Side will meet at Rutgers
Square at 10 am. At the same hour
the Unemployed Council will gather
the residents from upper East Side
at 7th Street and Avenue "a" and
march to the relief Office.
To develop movement all over
the city against evictions and relief
cuts, a. conference was called on the
initiative of the Greater New York
Unemployed Councils for tomorrow
at 10 in the morning at Irving Plaza.
Letters were sent to all mayoralty
candidates for the coming elections
to appear before the delegates from
hundreds of organizations and state
their position on the proposed Work
ers Ordinance" This ordinance calls
1Ol tllC ClOy W 0hooldC a
base rate of $40 weekly cash relief
for every couple, ST for single work.
ers and So for each dependent"
pending the adoption of unemploy-
ment insurance.
Letters were addressed to Mayor
John P. OBrien, Fiorello La Guarda,
Charles Solomon, and Robert Minor
respectively candidates for Mayor for
the Democratic. Fusion, Socialist and
Communist Parties.
A meeting of 200 homeless women
at the City Federation Hotel formed
itself into a League of Homeless
Women. An organization committee
of Is was elected with Margaret Kane
as organizer and Margaret Meade,
secretary. Temporary headquarters
were established at the Neighborhood
Center, 432 East 10th Street. job
less women are urged to get in touch
with the organization at this adj
dress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Try to Get Names of
Refugee Defense
Witnesses

LEIPZIG, Aug. 17.-Fear of the
Nazi authorities in the face OF the
worldwide campaign in defense of
Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff,
Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff, ac-
cused of setting the Reichstag on
fire, is revealed by the attempts OF
Karl Werner, chief federal attorney,
to get the names of refugee witnesses
who have proved that Hermann Goer-
ing arranged the fire himself.
1t was made public today that he
had written to George Brantlng,
leading Swedish lawyer, and Roman
ROLAND, French lawyer, members OF
an international commission of lead
ing lawyers and public men, who
have gathered first-hand evidence
for the public Peoples Trial which
will be held at The Hague sinful
taneously with the Leipzig trial, ask
ing for their evidence.
Most Of the witnesses who can
prove that Goering set the blaze were
forced to flee for their lives from
Germany, and they and their test
imony are under the protect of The
international committee. None would
be safe if he returned to Germany,
or even if the nature of his evidence
were known to the German author
tiles.
First-hand evidence makes certain
that the only way in which the in
cendiaries, and Marinus van der
Lubbe, Fascist stool pigeon who was
the only one reported found at the
scene of the fire, could have got into
he Reichstag is through the private
passageway from Goering's official
residence.
Publication in German papers to-
day of Werner's letters is the first
official recognition in Germany that
the Reichstag fire is widely recog-
nized as y frame-up, as declared by
the Communist Party, even by the
bourgeois press and liberals outside
Germany. All foreign newspapers
carrying any news of these facts
have been forbidden circulation in
Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Chinese Flood
Peril Increases
Big Area, Great Cities
Are Endangered

SHANGHAI, Aug. 1.-THE flood
waters of the Yellow River have got
beyond control in Shantung province.
General Han Fu-Chu, governor of
the province, has sent warning to
Kiangsu province, to the South, that
the river is likely to flood both pro-
vinces and regain its old bed, which
it left 81 years ago.
The present bed runs northeast to
all outlet 300 miles north Of the old.
If it regains the old bed, whole cities
are endangered. More than 900
square miles are under ten feet of
water in Western Shantung, around
the point where the new bed branches
off from the old.
The Peiping- Hankow railway, the
second most important railway in
China, is inundated, and the main
railway bridge over the river is I'M
dermined and may topple over. All
traffic has been suspended.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18

not turn pack. Mr.. Kennedy, who
is high in the circles of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor is we'll
aware of the "tupn back" At the
Cincinnati Convention of the A. F.
of L. last year a resolution was
adopted endorsing so-called state I'M
employment insurance. But it has
been discarded for the new DEAL"
The NRA, with It's wage cuts, with
the elimination of the existing relief
rations has replaced even the lip
service of support for unemployment
insurance.
But Kennedy starts off, 1.-THE
American Labor movement today
stands four square for compulsory
unemployment insurance." Of course
the American workers are swinging
more and more towards the support
of compulsory unemployment insur-
ANGEL" The American Federation of
Labor Committee for Unemployment
Insurance can record some 800 locals
and three State declarations which
have endorsed the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill. This move
ment is gaining wider support in the
ranks of the labor movement. This
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18

there are other accused.
The lives of Comrades Torgler,
Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff are in
serious danger. The statements Of
the Bulgarian lawyer Detcheff are
exceedingly alarming. They were
published in the "Anti-Fascist Front
of July %, and read as follows:
Lawyer Goes to Berlin
II went to Berlin in order to OBJ
tain from the accused permission to
act as their defender and in order to
inspect the dossiers. In Berlin l
went to the investigating Judge Vogt,
and requested permission to speak
with the accused and to see the dos
siers. Vogt replied that the prelim-
mary investigation was already at
an end and that l must apply to
the Public Prosecutor in Leipzig. 81
went to Leipzig but the Public Pros
ecutor told me it was not true that
the preliminary investigation was
over, and that in addition to Dimit-
rolf, Popoff, Taneff and Torgler,
there were other occused. The in
vestigation was still going on, he
said, and only Vogt could decide
whether my demands should be
granted or refused.
81 therefore went back to Berlin
and made fresh request to Vogt,
who informed me on July 10 that the
matter rested with the Public Pros
ecutor. f. 1t is clear that they in
any case wanted to prevent me from
seeing the accused and the dossiers,
because they were afraid I might
find proof of tie innocence of the
accused.
Forbidden to See Taneff
"But 1 refused to give way and
went once again to Vogt. On the
same day he went away on his sum-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
British Prepare
to Tighten Grip
on Iraq Kingdom
Massacre of Assyrians
Signal for Plans
to Intervene

LONDON, Aug. II. - Preparations
for the tightening of British military
control over Iraq were foreshadowed
by the hurried return to London to-
day of Prime Minister Macdonald,
on receipt of reports of a massacre
of Assyrians in Northern Iraq,
The London newspapers report that
a rebellion of Assyrians, Christian
racial minority, had been drowned in
blood by Bequir Sidqui Beg, Iraq
commander in the north, who is said
to be pro-Turkish. Five hundred As
syrians are reported to have been
massacred.
They report at the same time that
King Feisal, who was recently re-
ceived with extraordinary ceremony
by King George, is preparing to fly
to Switzerland, 'for a cure"
These reports imply weakening
of British influence over the coun-
try, which is rich oil field and a
strategic British air base for an at
tack on the Soviet Union. Great
Britain maintains an air force and
supports a standing army in Iraq.
Iraq was recently made an 'inde-
pendent" kingdom after having been
a British protectorate since 1920. The
deep dissatisfaction Of the people IN
der the crisis has given power to the
anti-British influence of Turkey.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18

Prompt aid, which can only be rem
dered by a powerful international
mass movement, is necessary.
Peoples Trial. At the Hague
1t was splendid idea to arrange
a trial by a peoples Court in the
Hague at the same time as the trial
in Leipzig. The preparation of this
trial alone has rendered inestimable
service to the cause of our innocent
comrades. But in addition, if this
action is to be effective, the factories
and trade unions must be fully mob
ilized, huge meetings must be held
and the streets and squares must re-
echo with the campaign.
Lawyers, writer's, and workers del
egations must go to Germany. The
German Consuls, the German Ambas-
sailors abroad must be allowed no
peace; they must be bombarded with
petitions, besieged by delegations.
Nazis Forced to Maneuver
Nothing is farther from our
thoughts than to harbor optimistic
illusions. Nevertheless, we see that
the Nazi authorities are compelled to
resort to maneuvers, to issue con-
fusing reports in order TO Illustrate
our campaign. The fact that Com
rades Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff and
Fopoff are still alive and that by
their innocence they constantly re-
mind Goering and Goebbels of their
guilt in connection with the Reich
stag fire, the fact that these COM
rades have not been simply killed by
the INSCRIPTIONS tools of Goehring
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Workers Delegates
Plan for Support
of Cuban Masses
$4,000 Workers Repre-
sented at Cuban
Conference

NEW RORK.-A protest to Presi-
dent de Cespedes, who with the aid
of American cruisers is attempting
to call halt to the Cuban revolu-
ton by clapping down the Machado
trick of martial law, was forwarded
last night by the Emergency Confer
ence on Cuba, called by the Anti
ImperialiSt League Wednesday night
at Webster Hall. The protest was is
sued in the name of ITS delegates
representing 122 workers branch Or
CARNATIONS with a membership of
approximately $4,000, so units Of the
Communist Party and four units OF
the Y.CL.
More than 500 workers and organ
ization delegates took part in the
meeting, which acted on the report
on Cuba made by William Simons,
national Secretary of the Anti-Im-
perialist League.
"The main question before Cuba
today" declares Simons in his re-
port, sis whether the regime of Ma
chado will continue after Machado
has been forced out.
"The new government, backed by
Roosevelt's cruisers, claims that the
revolution is over. Will the masses
stop at this ?" asked Simons, giving
a comprehensive review of the Cuban
situation.
Conclusive evidence was given by
Simons of the powerful role the
masses of Cuba, aroused in a general
strike that paralyzed the island,
played in the gushing of Machado.
The masked intervention of the
trusted imperialist representative
Welles was shown to be part and
parcel of the open military interven-
ton which followed when the general
strike of the workers destroyed the
negotiations.
The leading role of the Communist
Party of Cuba and of the CNOC (Na-
tional Labor Confederation of Cuba)
in initiating the strike, and in pre-
senting the demands of the workers
to de Cespedes was emphasized in
Simons' report to the conference.
In a resolution adopted and for
warded to President Roosevelt, the
conference demanded:
withdraw Immediately from Cuba
the cruisers you have sent there.
And by withdrawal we do not mean
merely sending them to the Guanta-
namo Naval base in Cuba. You have
sent cruisers to Cuba to safeguard
the Cespedes government which you
have set up through the intervention
of Welles to protect American prop
erty in Cuba"
The resolution was signed by Rob-
ert Dunn, chairman of the confer
ence, and national chairman of the
Anti-Imperialist League of the
United States.
The Cespedes resolution was in
part as follows:
"Your declaration of martial law is
aimed to drive back to work those
workers still on strike. We insist
on the right of the workers organ
izations to exist legally, including
the Anti-Imperialist League, the
Communist Party and the National
Labor Confederation of Cuba. We
demand immediate termination of
martial law, and the immediate re-
lease of Joaquin Ordoqui and of 9TH
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
go to Hell" Says
Arms Maker Asked
About War Orders

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 17.-Mrs.
Elsa Tudor, wealthy Boston Liberal,
was told to go to he'll" by John
Harrington of the Harrington q
Richardson Arms Co. in Worcester,
Mass, when she and Mrs. Ruth
N1owrey of Stoneham, Mass, at
tempted to interview him on the
var preparations going on in his
plant.
Mrs. Tudor and Mrs. Mowrey,
members of the Women's Interna-
fional League for Peace and Free
hom. have been conducting an in
dependent campaign Of picketing
before New England munition fac
cries and attempting to get work.
rs to sign petition 10 Roosevelt
FALLING for reduction OF ornaments.
Their plans were widely publicized
.or a time by the capitalist press,
Tut what they learned during their
Experiences are not reportd.
In letter 10 the New England
.abor Research Association, Mrs.
'udor reports conversations with
'orkers at the Winchester Repeat
az Arms Co. in New Haven, Conn,
Tilo said they were manufacturing
large quantities for war. The
rperintendent, on the other hand,
I'D them the plant was making
othing but sport arms, washing
lacnines, skates, etc. He said rhey
JADE nothing out OF the last war
nd that the firm was now in re-
,ivers' hands. This last was later
snied and the workers gave the
) to the statement that no money
ad been made out Of the war. The
tperintendent admitted that the
nm sold gunpowder to South
nerica.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Ndzis in Neev Attack on
Torgler Defense Plans
Machad0 FamilyUnder
Guard in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 17.-Senora
Elvira Machado, wife of the former
Cuban President, her two daughters
and their husband, and three grand
children were closely guarded in the
Pennsylvania Hotel here, with armed
men guarding the corridors and close
ly Scrutinising every person who
enters the hotel.
They had intended going on to
New York, but changed their minds
and remained in Philadelphia, while
100 New York policemen waited to
guard them on their arrival in New
York. 1t was said they had been
warned of danger from enemies of
Machado in New York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18

been unable to dock. The steamship
companies offered to raise wages
from So to "a, with double time at
night, but refused the other demands
of the workers.
Half of the workers are still out in
Santiago. including street car, bus
and railway men, and bakers. Street
car and railway men are still out in
Camaguey.
The Cuba Northern and Cuba
American Can Company's railways
remain paralyzed as are the ports Of
Antilla, Puerto Tarafa and others
along the north coast.
Raise Revolutionary Demands
Largely under Communist leader
ship, the strikers are holding out for
their economic demands, and raising
the demand for lifting Of all restric-
tons on the revolutionary unions, for
the smashing of Americas imperial
istic grip on the island, and for the
distribution of the land among the
peasants.
President de CeSpedes appeared
openly as a puppet president yester-
day, when it was freely admitted in
government circles that he had not
announced his new program because
every detail of it had first to be
approved by Sumner Welles, the
American ambassador
Prepare Tax ExactiOns
TIL oL;oF ,,,oS,1a,-, xzzS-ioI, IL 10.
pedes and Welles are considering is
taxation. The ruined small farmers
are far behind in their taxes, which
are crushing in size, and the first
task the new Wall Street-de CeSpedes
regime has set itself Is TO gouge new
taxes out of the workers and farmers
to pay Cuba's immense obligations to
American bankers.
Even if his program were ready
and approved by Welles, de CespedeS
would still find difficulty in carrying
it out, since majority of the Con-
gress and Senate are either out Of
the country or hiding in fear OF their
lives. because of their support Of
Machado, and it is not yet possible
to get quorum to meet.
Soldiers Hunt Out Porrissas
Meanwhile workers, students and
peasants had the active support of
soldiers of the Cuban army in the
hunt for murderers Of the Machado
regime. Soldiers with machine guns
and rifles covered the docks when
Jose Cans, a Porra leader, hid him
self on board the American liner
MORO Castle, and were persuaded
with difficulty not to raid the ship.
Forty-two soldiers and two police
men were reported injured as a bat
TALON of the Cuban army besieged a
house in Havana in which a large
group of Porristas, believed to be
headed by Antonio Ainciert, former
chief Of police, were cornered. The
Porristas had machine gun, and
we're fighting with the knowledge
that they could not get out alive. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Deadly New Bomber
Built for U. S. Navy

WASHINGTON, Aug. IT. "A new
tytle of Navy bomber. faster than the
oil, and equipped with machine guns,
ID being tried out at Anacostia. It
will be one of the Nays most for
nj liable flying fighters.
Tear Admiral Ernest j. King is at
ta apting to get a further $4,000 900
frtm the Public Works Fund to build
planes Of this ana other types to
equip the Ranger, a new aircraft car
rier, and four cruisers equipped with
flying decks. part of the current
s238o00,OOo naval building program,
which will be completed next year
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18
Gandhi Wins Point,
Stops death Fast

BOMBAY, Aug. II. - Mahatma
Gandhi's fast to DEATH" begun yes
terday, was ended today as the Bonn
bay government granted him few
special privileges as political pris-
oner in Yerovda Jail, Poona, where
he is serving year for civil dis
obedience"
M. S. Aney, acting president of the
All-India National Congress, was ar
rested with a party of Congress vol
unteers who refused to disperse when
about to commit an act of civil dis
obedience. He was sentenced to SIX
months in prison.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-18

er imprisoned strikers"
All organizations present agreed
to draw up special plans for carrying
the Cuban campaign of support to
the American workers by means of
open meetings and discussions, by
sending kilograms and resolutions,
and by collecting funds for the Gu
ban revolutionary workers.
They also voted to support the
mass meeting on Cuba which will be
held tonight, Friday, at the New
Star Casino.