The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-08
Communists Are ActiVe
All Over Germany
Demonstrations and
Unemployed Actions
Throughout Germany

BERLIN, June IA revolutionary
demonstration took place May "a near
the Arminiusplatz in Moabit, workers
district of Berlin. Several hundred
workers took part, and at the end Of
the demonstration they tore up the
Hitler Oak Tree" planted there on
Hitler's recent birthday.
Most OF the demonstrators we're
young workers, and even the bour-
geois press printed reports of the
demonstration. The "Deutsche ALL
gemeine zeitung" wrote: Several
young fellows committed outrages in
the neighborhood Of the Arminius-
platz, necessitating the summoning of
the police. The tablet on the oak tree
planted on Hitler's birthday was
smeared with paint and broken"
The newly appointed General Po-
lice Commissioner for Wuerttemberg
has just issued an order for special
protection of the oak trees planted
at every street corner during the Hit
Ter birthday celebration. The police
charge that dozens of these trees have
been torn up by workers and that
special storm troop attachments have
had to be assigned to guard them.
Mass Actions of Unemployed
The fascist press Of Frankfurt pub
fishes reports of unemployed mass &C
tons in Bochum, Dusseldorf and
Hanover. These demonstrations were
Of such size that even the fascist press
had to break its usual ironbound 81
lence.
Serious clashes took place at a rail-
way station near Bochum, big Ruhr
industrial center, when a detail of
railway police tried to drive off hun
dreds of workers wives who were I'M
loading coal truck, taking the coal
home with them. The Infatuated
women turned on the policemen and
locked them up in the truck The
police fired several shots, wounding
some OF the unemployed workers.
THE frequest coal thefts in the
Ruhr led to this bloody clash" ac-
cording to the ''Frankfurter Zeitung
of May %.
Food Stores Raided
Unemployed workers stormed a.
food store of the Storm Troopers in
Dusseldorf, which was opened on the
occasion of the Schlageter celebration.
The store, in the quarters of the Bak-
ers' Guild, was guarded by storm
troopers. These NazLs were beaten by
the unemployed, and one of them,
Stemmen, died of his injuries.
Unemployed attacked a number of
food stores in Hanover, smashing the
windows and taking away all food
! stuffs. The police threw a Gordon
around the whole district and made
more than 80 arrests.
Force Withdrawal of Relief Cut
The mayor of the little town of
Sontra (near KasseD, Nazi ordered
a 80 per cent cut in unemployment
relief. The unemployed: Communists,
Socialist and Nazi workers, assembled
and marched to the Town Hall, where
a stormy scene was enacted. Many
unemployed members of the Nazi
Party tore up their membership cards
and threw away their party badges.
The pressure of the indignant work
ers compelled the Mayor to retract
his reA4 - order.
Workers Ncnate Days Pay for
Defense
Within the last two weeks the
Wuerttemberg District of the Red Aid
Q.L.D) issued and distributed two
numbers of the Tribunal" In addi-
ton a special number was published.
with articles on the situation in Ger
many, and several leaflets were dis
tributed.
The workers of big Stuttgart fac
tory (for obvious reasons we cannot
print its name) decided to donate
their pay for May l to the Red Aid
for the political prisoners. Red Aid
members are paying their dues regu-
larry. The increased activity of the
Red Aid has led to many police raids,
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