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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25

Nazi party, in his place.
After this was done, the police
staged a new rad" On the Karl
Lieb.snecht House (Which, we must
remember, had been seized AID sealed
up by the police weeks before) on
february "a, three days before the
fire. And this raid, made without
any representatives of the Commu-
mist Party present at headquarters,
delivered the goods. The Berlin press
printed giant headlines: "Commu-
nisSs Plot Murcer, Arson, Sabotage,
Poisoning as Fart CT Plan for Revolt
Tons OF discriminating Documents
Found in Karl Liebknecht House
Catacombs!'
Goering announced that these doc
uments would be published at once
to prove the need for suppressing the
Communist Party throughout Ger
many. 1t is significant that not a
single one of the supposed "docu-
ments" has ever seen the light of
day in any publication whatever.
Hitler Leaves the Fire Date Open
Corroborating evidence of the Nazi
leaders part in the fire plot is found
in the plan for Hitler's speaking
campaign, published on Feb. 10 by
the Nazi election bureau. 1t shows
Hitler speaking on Feb. % in Frank
furt, on Feb. "a in Munish, on eb. Is
in Leipzig, and on March l, 2, 8 and
4, In Breslau, Berlin, Hamburg anc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Gibson Says City
Not Responsible
for Relief Cuts
Organize Families on
Every Block, Urges
UnemployedCouncil

NEW YORK.-Taking away the
blame from the city for not making
provisions for the 10000 families left
without food because of the closing
of the Emergency Unemployment
Relief Committee, Harvey D. Gibson,
the committees chairman, blamed
the hungry families for not register
ing with the Home Relief Bureaus.
He said that families on the COM
mittee's relief rolls had ample oppor-
tunity in the past two weeks since
the announcement of the Gibson
committee closing to transfer TO city
or others charitable relief.
The whitewaSnlng OF the city Off
Gals by this "benefactor" comes on
top of the numerous announcements
of the curtailing of relief funds and
wholesale elimination of thousands
of families from the Home Relief
Bureau rolls. The 10000 families
left without aid had no opportunity
to register with the city, because
those already on the relief rolls are
being cut and evicted.
with hunger facing thousands of
families" Carl Winter, secretary of
the Unemployed Council said, we
intend to organize all workers in the
neighborhood to fight against the
hunger program instituted by the
government.
Our committees will go from
house to house." Winter continued
I'VE will get whole families to join
in this movement to fight this star
walton facing the people of the city
A Workers Relief Ordinance which
would make it mandatory for the
city to assure every unemployed fam
lily as well as single persons mini
mum amount of relief in cash is
urged by the Unemployed Council
For this purpose funds are be raised
by taxation on bankers, large rea
estate holders and huge incomes o.
the rich.
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Koenigsberg, respectively. What
strikes our attention at once is that
no speaking dates were planned for
Feb. Is to 81, the three days imme-
diately prece@ .lg the Reichstag fire.
Nor did Hit-e ave any other offic.a!
enga gements lor these three days.
He was completely frea-free for
what? Free to devote all his atten-
ton to supervising the plan for burn
ing tie Reiclstag, ready to be on the
scene and at on,e announce to the
world-even before van der Lubbe
had made his supposed confession ~
that "the Communists had burned
the Reichstag.'
s-srm Troopers in Readiness
Al-otl1er highly significant fact. Or
FeL. n, the day the fire broke out
all the storm troopers of Berlin were
confined within their barracks, ready
for a sudden call. A storm trooper
who fed from Germany at the enc
of March reports in the Paris IN
transigeant" that the storm troop
were called out around 10 pm. with
the cry THE Reichstag is on rire!
Certain storm troopers were at onct
detailed to run through the street.
of Berlin spreading the news tina
he Communists had set the Reich
stag on fire.
And any newspaperman who daret
to deny or even to doubt this charg'
was clapped into jail, SO that onl.
the Nazi frame-up version was al
lowed to be spread-over the radio tina
same night, and in all the newspaper
the next morning.
(T0morrOw-Goerin Heines and
Their Gang.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
BY ROBERT HAMILTON

TIL evidences regarding tn e
actions of the Nazis during the
weeks preceding the Reichstag fire,
and analysis of the political situation
in Germany on the eve of the fires
outbreak, both offer fairly conclusive
proof of where the flrebugs are to be
looked for.
During the month of February the
Nazis were in the minority in Nazi-
Nationalist coalition Cabinet, with
only Hitler, Goering and Prick as
Nazi ministers. The Nationalist
possessed close contact with Presi-
dent Won Hindenburg and practically
controlled the Reichswehr, Ger
manys army, besides having a huge
private army of their own, the Steel
Helmets. The elections in Lippe- Det-
mold, one of the minor German
states, had shown that Hitler could
not win an absolute majority in the
approaching Reichstag elections on
March 5th.
Goebbels Brilliant idea
Something had to be done to null
lily the veto power of the National
list ministers and establish pogrom
atmosphere throughout he country,
as a setting for crushing the Com
munist Party and para1yzing the
growing resistance of the German
working class, expressed in a wave
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25

mand of military officers" is the
estimation of the forced labor camps
made by the National Committee of
the Unemployed Councils.
We were fed corn willy" for two
weeks" George Salisbury, one of the
returning youths remarked. A disgust
with the treatment received while
working and spurning chance to
re-enlist was the prevalent tone
among the boys,
The military officers filled them
with propaganda that the NRA will
give, them jobs on their return
Many were glad to return, feeling
that the NRA has opened the opor-
tunity of new jobs, but Immediately
they will become acquainted that the
five million jobs promised by Roose-
not give them any work or relief
what Do You Face?"
what do you face when you get
homer" is the question raised by the
Unemployed Council in its state
ment. 1t then proceeds to point out
that the recovery" propaganda will
not give them any work or relief
Tt then proceeds, Most of you will
find no jobs. If some of you do gel
job, you will have to work at break
neck speed. But the great majority
Of you will be in the same position as
before: NO JOBS"
The forest youths are urged te
"join the workers army" and joir
with the Unemployed Councils ir
their territories.
AS the details from the c. C. C
are being demobilized, a campaign
for 1000 new recruits for the second
contingent has already been started
Selections will be made by the Labol
Departments and the Veterans ad.
ministrations in each state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
W hat
| a
World
BY Michael Gold
Our Journalism

IN politics. unless the immediate
/ event is studied in the light of his
tory and there is a detached class
Judgment, the whole movement sinks
into a swamp of empiricism. Prac-
tice without a guiding revolutionary
theory slips all too easily into A. F..
of L. opportunism.
1t is the same with literature.
You can't have an effective journal
ism unless somebody is also writing
poetry and bellies lettres, creating a
high standard of clear and powerful
rhetoric. and keeping alive the large
perspectives.
Our Communist journalism in
America has too often taken on an
air of unreality has been to anna
teur or the work of compilers and
pedants.
Have you ever been at a meeting
where some Party functionary made
one of the usual long, cut-and-dried
speeches, monotonouS but full of the
correct cliches, boring the crowd to
tears? Then he was followed by
some plain worker from steel mill
or farm, who spoke wildly of the
proletarian realities, and thrilled the
crowd with his homely truths.
The pressure on the young prole-
tartan writer's is to drive them not
toward the living red realism of the
worker. but toward the bureaucratic
CORRECTNESS" and unreality of GER
tain functionaries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Sentence Aged Man
for Saying Nothing

WEIMAR, Germany.--If you are
stopped in the street and are asked
if you believe the Nazis themselves
"set fire to the Reichstag" and you
give no answer, you are liable to a
Jail sentence in Nazi Germany.
DR.. Fuchs once a professor of
theology, was sentenced by special
court to months Imprisonment for
having allegedly declared in a pri-
vate conversation that he did not
believe the Communists had any
thing to do with setting the Reich
stag on fire. DR. Fuchs is an old
man, and is no longer acting as
teacher or as reverend
The woman brought charges
against him because when she asked
him whether he perhaps believed
that the Nazis themselves set fire tc
the Reichstag, "he gave no answer
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25


class down to the present time, con-
tinued Browder. 1.-THE only party to-
day that stands on the planks laid
down by Marx and Engels is the
Communist Party"
The three Communist candidates
for city office, Robert Minor, can
didate for Mayor, william Burroughs
running for Comptroller, and Ben
Gold for President of the Board OF
Aldermen, were given tumultous
ovations when they entered the hall
and as they arose to speak. Charles
Krumbein, New York district organ
izer of the Communist Party, was
chairman. en-
The meeting was also a ratification
rally Of the Communist Party election
candidates for New York City. A res
olution was unanimously passed and
cabled to DR.. Wilhelm Buenger, Su-
preme Court in Leipsig, Germany, de-
handing the immediate release of
Torgler, Dimitroff, Taneff, Popoff
Thaelmann and all anti-fascist VIC
Tins.
Another resolution was sent to
President Roosevelt demanding that
he order the withdrawal of all U. S
ships and marines from Cuba and
that he abrogate the Platt Amend
ment.
THE Communist Party does not
represent only the workers with
Communist Sympathies," said Robert
Minor, after showing the betrayals OF
the workers by the Socialist Party.
81 say the Communist Party rep
resentS the Socialist workers as well
in this election campaign. The Com
munist Party" he continued, must
and can step forward and take the
lead of all the workers-of Socialist
workers, of A. F. of L. workers, Cath
Ole, Protestant, despite all of their
prejudices instilled in them by the
capitalist system"
| The Communist candidate outlined
the Party's program of struggle for
bread and relief for the unemployed
against the blue buzard which is
! fastening its claws of company
unionism, open shop, wage-cuts and
slavery.
1--WE face also the third party OF
capitalism, the Socialist Party" he
said 1.-THE Socialist Party is in this
election campaign only because the
Republican Fusion group rejected
Norman Thomas. Paul Blanshard
wrote the Socialist election platform
and is now in the Fusion camp"
AS Minor got up to speak, Negro
child ran up from the audience anc
kissed him.
Earl BcoWder, who was the first
speaker, said that new workers ii
the Party should understand that
the Communist Party is mot an &C.
cidental occurrence which happened
yesterday and will be gone tomorrow
The Communist Party is the flux o.
many generations OF experience anc
struggle of the working class all ovel
the world. The Communist Part,
emhodieS the lessons of the experience
of the victorious workers of tht
Soviet Union"
After speaking of the innumerablt
struggles the Party has led through.
out the United States, Browdel
continued
'All of these things are embodied
in the municipal election campaign
that we are conducting in New York
Everybod knows that vote for Rob
ert Minor in New York is a vote fol
the leader of the unemployed demon
stration of March 9Th, 1890, which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
100000 Children
Face Shut Schools,
Ohio Survey Shows

CLEVELAND, Sept. "a. - Be-
cause the town councils are more
anxious to pay off bank loans than
to get children into the schools,
more than $4,000 children in Ohio
will find classroom doors closed
when they return to school in the
next few days, it was announced
here yesterday.
Funds are on hand to operate all
the schools in the State for only
two more months the Governor an
nornced.
School officials declared that in
all probability 100000 school chill
dren will be forced out Of the
schools by Christmas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25

it should be. But here l recall
your hero Arnold. In truth, he is
too faultleSs, and if at last he per-
ishes, by falling off a mountain,
this can pc reconciled with poetic
justice only in that he was too good
for this world 1t is not always bad
for an author to be in love with his
hero, but it seems to me in this
case you have given way to this
weakness. Elsa still has traces of
personality, although she is also
somewhat idealized, but in Arnold
personality is lost in an abstract pat
tern of principle.
This particular novel is marred
completely by this defect. Evidently
you felt the need of publicly declar-
ing your convictions, bearing witness
to them before the whole world. You
have already done this, this is al
ready behind you, and there is no
reason to repeat it in such a form.
I think that the bias should flow
by itself from the situation and ac-
ton, without any particular pointing,
and that the writer is not obliged
to intrude on the reader the future
historic solution of the social con-
flicts pictured.
"At present a novel is read almost
entirely by bourgeois circles. There
fore Socialist-biased novel achieves
its purpose, believe, if 1t conscien-
tiously describes the class relations,
breaks down conventional illusions
about them, skaters the optimism
OF the bourgeois world, instillS doubt
as to the eternal domination of the
existing order although the author
does not offer any definite solution
os does not even line up openly on
any particular side"
This historic letter in full Is con-
tanned in International Literature.
the magazine published in Moscow,
No. 2, 1888. An article commenting
on it by F. Schiller would be a COM
plete education for anyone trying to
get straight on the realities of prole-
tartan literature. 1t certainly de-
stroys a lot of bunk and inflated
ideas.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
The Lost Poets

shall never cease regretting the
loss of certain young writer's to prole-
tartan literature. A young poet like
Martin Russak, the Paterson weaver,
started with more promise than most
have ever known. AS Russak came
closer and closer to the movement,
he was shamed out of literature
YES. shamed He is now a useful
organizer for the National Textile
Wc~kers, doing an important Job
vel.
But only a few gifted writer's are
born in every million children. OF
these few, only a small percentage
become proletarian writer's. What a
waste to destroy this precious germ
Of the future!
Without a careful encouragement
Of proletarian bellies lettres, the
Communist movement can never at
tain any effective mass-propaganda.
- MSTx- and Engels emphasized this
again and again, as did Lenin. Says
the Soviet critic F. Schiller in a re-
cent article. For Marx and. Engels
a Party newspaper was unthinkable
without political poems on questions
of the day and other small forms of
literature" Meaning the sketch, the
satire, the feuillton
The capitalist press has had a
long experience in reaching the
masses. We can take from capitalist
technique what is valuable, and use
it for our own ends. Study the tab
loids and you will see that they find
it necessary to print poetry, fiction
and satire.
But it is not enough to assent
mechanically, and then expect prole-
tartan writer's to fall from the sky.
An atmosphere must be created in
which such writers will feel that it
is of great Importance to write their
best for the movement because only
their best is wanted. This surely is
not the situation today.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Defeating the Stooges

We are still living, in America, in
the first primitive crude moments of
proletarian literature. Impossible
demands are made on the writers
by comrades who have never really
given the matter a single thought.
Bad and good writing are not differ
entiated.
One hesitates to attack sincere eff
forts, yet are not novels like Mar
lens THE Road" and the IS. S.
Utah" which is running serially, a
bad kind of proletarian literature to
encourage?
IIarlen's "The Road" is an awful
example of everything that a book
should not be-a long, windy series
of discussions, with not real per-
son or bit of drama.
"S.S. Utah." though lots more real,
falls into the same category. The
general scheme of such novels is that
a Communist engages in a running
conversation with half dozen
stooges, and, working his jaw as rap
idly as possible, fells them one after
the other.
Is this life? Is Communism
spread only by debate and argu-
ment? Are not the great historic
events, the strikes and crises, the
hunger and cold, the real teachers
of the working class? True, the
Communist must teach his fellow
workers, but he teaches them in the
midst of a real battle
His victories are not the easy VIC
tories of the classroom. He is not
faced with stooges, in the real world,
with straw opponents whom he can
knock down easily. This argufying,
this dressing up of a series of edi-
totals in a fictional guise, is the
usual serious blunder of all begin
ners in proletarian fiction. 1t should
be severely discouraged, think, be-
cause it is a form of self-deception
and the wrong pattern of life for
Communists to follow.
But Engels has said something
historic that ought to be reprinted
here Here is an extract from a
letter he wrote in 1885 to Kautsky S
mother, a well-known Socialist nov
elist.
The Bias
Your characters have generally
been drawn with your usual precision
Of NATURALIZATION. Each person is
a type, but at the same time COM
pletely defined personality, this one,
~s old Hegel would say. That is as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Tired, Hungry, Youths
Return tromLabor Camps
Most of You Will Find No Jobs" Unemployed
Council Statement Points Out to Returning
Boys; Start Recruiting for New Contingents

NEW YORK-Tired and with of "We Eat"
the first detail forced
the o the department
Rotten
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
How the Nazis Planned the Reichstag Fire

The following is the third article
in series revealing the truth about
the Reichstag fire, and the political
background in Germany on the eve
of the fire.-Editor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
Celebrate
Communist Pdrty'S
18th Anniversary
Earl Browder Says Real Birth of Party Was
at Time of Communist Manifesto in 1913;
N. Y. City Election Platform Ratified

NEW YORKFive h
the Communist West 66th st,
Friday night heard Secretary point
that "The beginning of 1913 with the
issuance of the
Th manifesto Of Marx laid basic which
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-25
The Bias

your characters have generally
been drawn with your usual precision
Of NATURALIZATION. Each person is
type, but at the same time a COM
pletely defined personality. this one,
-s old Hegel would say That is as
The Nome nugget., 1933-02-04
ALASKANS LEADING SERIES HAMMON, COMMERCIALS TIED
 FOR 2nd; FEDERALS 8rd

The games last Wednesday night at the large Eagle Hall definitely placed the Alaskans in the lead for the series, with the Hammon and Commercials tied for second place and the Federals third.
 The first game of the evning was. played between the Hammon and Commercials, with the Hammon talk ing their first bats. They started out with a jump by driving in three runs before the side could be retired. Tn their half of the first the Commercials got sway to a big start by knocking in runs to give them a four run lead. The Hammon added another run in the second and with. Glavinovieh pitch ing in place of Brousseau held the Commercials scoreless. Both sides blanked in the third inning, and in the fourth. the Hammon got away to a spirited rally, bringing in five runs. The Commercials in their half of the fourth added two more runs to tie the score. Tn the
The Nome nugget., 1933-02-04
vas s me good ball playing done at

was some good ball playing done at times.
 Mrs. Ileene Jones, wife of pilot Jones realizing her teams need of assistance during this import ant engagement eondescended to play with the PAA team even tho she had Just finished playing sev- en innings of ball with the. mar ried women.
 The PAA. came to bat first and famed out one, two three, before the attack of the fiickering cine mas. Tn their half of the inning the MGlM got three runs. Tn the se- cond the PAA got three runs, but the MGM stepped out again and chalked up another four runs. The PAA were blanked in the next two innings and in the last of the fourth the MGM added another two runs bringing the score 11-S in their favor. In the first of the 9th the PAA got one run while the MGM got two. A great rally started in the beginning of the the 9th when the PAA moved down every thing to bring in 5 runs and hold the strong MGM. team to a goose egg. In.e their last chance at bats in the beginning of the seventh, the PAA made a strong bid to take the game but weres only able to score two runs and the game ended with the score 1911 in favor of the MGM. Captains on the oppos- ing teams were PAA Manager Ly- man S Peck, and MGM Director w. S. Van Dyke. Following is the short score of the game:
 P. A. A. O 8 o 0 Is 2-11 M-G-M 8 4 042 O t-13
 Empires were G R Jackson and O S Weaver.
 Scorekeepers were Norman Ro- lando and Wilson Scott. {
 Following is the lineups of the
The Nome nugget., 1933-02-04
LOCAL NEWS
BASEBALL CLASSICS OF THE
 YEAR PLAYED THURSDAY TO NEARLY 1000

Ire greatest single aggregation of movie producers in the north stretching over a distance from Africa to Alaska and Nome, ball players all of them, and the great est aggregation of airplane pilots and mechanics prepared for indoor baseball from Buenos Aires to Nome, gathered for the big fray last Thursday night to show how the game should be played.
 The big baseball classic of the year was played last Thursday ev- ening in the large Eagle Hall be- fore approximately 800 or 1000 people, when the M-G-M movie company played the PAA airplane team The single girls played the married women.
 With the storm yesterday neith- CT the Metro Goldwyn Mayer movie colony could proceed with their work of filming the novel by Pet CT Freuchen "The Eskimo, nor could the Pacific Alaska Airways pilots and mechanicians go about transporting the remainder of the company from their site at Teller to Nome, so they agreed to fight to a finish, at indoor baseball at the Eagle Hall. They had all pre- paratfons made including a 6-piece dance orchestra for dance foll- owing the ball games. The loser of the two teams was to pay all expenses and the PAA lost by a score of 13-11g a close game.
 Single girls team played the married women as preliminary. This game was just considered as a practice game between the lad ies' teams and not one of their regular series. They have a few practices yet before they are ready but the game last night seemed to give the single girls an edge, they having beat the married wo- men by score of 17-12. Following is short score of the game:
 Married % CA 3 1 4-12 Single 24S 0 2 2 8 "A17
 Bmpsses for he. game were And rew Sather and Lester Lundberg.
 The line up of the teams is as fnl10Uva.
The Nome nugget., 1933-02-04
M-G-M Ns P. A. A.

The big .'palooka" scramble of the evening was between the MGM and the P. A. A. with both sides trying to out-do the other in .mak- ing the prize 'Hbone-heads'' of the game. One side would try and throw the ball in the gallery to keep dropping it and the other side would send out assistants to help the baserunners around the bases to the home plate. All in all how ever, the players and spectators alike had a lot of fun and there